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Neutrinos in compact-object environments, such as core-collapse supernovae, can experience various kinds of collective effects in flavor space, engendered by neutrino-neutrino interactions. These include "bipolar" collective oscillations,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Eve Armstrong , Amol V. Patwardhan , A. A. Ahmetaj , M. Margarette Sanchez , Sophia Miskiewicz , Marcus Ibrahim , Ishaan Singh

The multi-messenger astrophysics of compact objects presents a vast range of environments where neutrino flavor transformation may occur and may be important for nucleosynthesis, dynamics, and a detected neutrino signal. Development of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-24 Eve Armstrong , Amol V. Patwardhan , Ermal Rrapaj , Sina Fallah Ardizi , George M. Fuller

We investigate the neutrino flavor change effects due to neutrino self-interaction, shock wave propagation as well as matter effect on the neutrino-process of the core-collapsing supernova (CCSN). For the hydrodynamics, we use two models: a…

Recent multi-dimensional (multi-D) core-collapse supernova (CCSN) simulations characterize gravitational waves (GWs) and neutrino signals, offering insight into universal properties of CCSN independent of progenitor. Neutrino analysis in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-04 Hiroki Nagakura , David Vartanyan

Accurate neutrino transport is crucial for reliably modeling explosive astrophysical events like core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and neutron star mergers (NSMs). However, in these extremely neutrino-dense systems, flavor oscillations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-29 Lucas Johns , Sherwood Richers , Meng-Ru Wu

Neutrinos experience collective flavor conversion in extreme astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). One manifestation of collective conversion is slow flavor conversion (SFC), which has recently attracted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Ian Padilla-Gay , Heng-Hao Chen , Sajad Abbar , Meng-Ru Wu , Zewei Xiong

The evolution of neutrino flavor in dense environments such as core-collapse supernovae and binary compact object mergers constitutes an important and unsolved problem. Its solution has potential implications for the dynamics and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-29 Ermal Rrapaj , Amol V. Patwardhan , Eve Armstrong , George Fuller

In dense neutrino gases, the neutrino-neutrino coherent forward scattering gives rise to a complex flavor oscillation phenomenon not fully incorporated in simulations of neutron star mergers (NSM) and core collapse supernovae (CCSNe).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-06 Erick Urquilla , Sherwood Richers

During the shock-wave propagation in a core-collapse supernova (SN), matter turbulence may affect neutrino flavor conversion probabilities. Such effects have been usually studied by adding parametrized small-scale random fluctuations (with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Enrico Borriello , Sovan Chakraborty , Hans-Thomas Janka , Eligio Lisi , Alessandro Mirizzi

One of the active debates in core-collapse supernova (CCSN) theory is how significantly neutrino flavor conversions induced by neutrino-neutrino self-interactions change the conventional picture of CCSN dynamics. Recent studies have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-16 Hiroki Nagakura , Masamichi Zaizen

We explore the impact of small-scale flavor conversions of neutrinos, the so-called fast flavor conversions (FFCs), on the dynamical evolution and neutrino emission of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). In order to do that, we implement FFCs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Jakob Ehring , Sajad Abbar , Hans-Thomas Janka , Georg Raffelt , Irene Tamborra

Numerical simulations of the supernova (SN) neutrino self-induced flavor conversions, associated with the neutrino-neutrino interactions in the deepest stellar regions, have been typically carried out assuming the "bulb-model". In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Alessandro Mirizzi , Pasquale Dario Serpico

We assess the utility of an optimization-based data assimilation (D.A.) technique for treating the problem of nonlinear neutrino flavor transformation in core collapse supernovae. D.A. uses measurements obtained from a physical system to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-18 Eve Armstrong , Amol V. Patwardhan , Lucas Johns , Chad T. Kishimoto , Henry D. I. Abarbanel , George M. Fuller

Neutrino flavor evolution inside a core-collapse supernova is a topic of active research. The core of a supernova is an intense source of neutrinos and antineutrinos. Self-interaction among neutrinos (as well as antineutrinos) gives rise to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-20 Indrajit Ghose , Amitabha Lahiri

The large neutrino density in the deep interior of core-collapse supernovae and compact binary merger remnants makes neutrino flavor evolution non-linear because of the coherent forward scattering of neutrinos among themselves. Under the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

We implement a multi-group and discrete-ordinate neutrino transport model in spherical symmetry which allows to simulate collective neutrino oscillations by including realistic collisional rates in a self-consistent way. We utilize this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-13 Zewei Xiong , Meng-Ru Wu , Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo , Tobias Fischer , Manu George , Chun-Yu Lin , Lucas Johns

In the standard model of core-collapse supernova (CCSN), all neutrinos are assumed to be in pure flavor eigenstates in CCSN cores, but the assumption becomes invalid if neutrino distributions are unstable to flavor conversions. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-31 Masamichi Zaizen , Sherwood Richers , Hiroki Nagakura , Hideyuki Suzuki , Chinami Kato

The observation of Earth matter effects in the spectrum of neutrinos coming from a next galactic core-collapse supernova (CCSN) could, in principle, reveal if neutrino mass ordering is normal or inverted. One of the possible ways to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-12 Edwin A. Delgado , Hiroshi Nunokawa , Alexander A. Quiroga

Self-induced flavor conversions near the supernova (SN) core can make the fluxes for different neutrino species become almost equal, potentially altering the dynamics of the SN explosion and washing out all further neutrino oscillation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Francesco Capozzi , Basudeb Dasgupta , Alessandro Mirizzi

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) offers strong sensitivity to neutrinos from a Galactic core collapse supernova, providing a powerful probe of neutrino flavor conversion and the neutrino mass ordering. In this work, we study…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-05 Adikiran Johny , Athulkrishna R , Rudra Majhi , Suchismita Sahoo
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