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Neutrinos are known to undergo flavor conversion processes among the three flavors. The fast flavor conversion (FFC) has been the central piece of flavor conversions taking place in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) due to its shorter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-15 Jiabao Liu , Hiroki Nagakura , Ryuichiro Akaho , Akira Ito , Masamichi Zaizen , Shoichi Yamada

Neutrino flavor instabilities appear to be omnipresent in dense astrophysical environments, thus presenting a challenge to large-scale simulations of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers (NSMs). Subgrid models offer a path…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-27 Sherwood Richers , Julien Froustey , Somdutta Ghosh , Francois Foucart , Javier Gomez

The large neutrino fluxes emitted with a distinct flavor hierarchy from core-collapse supernovae (SNe) during the post-bounce accretion phase, offer the best opportunity to detect effects from neutrino flavor oscillations. We perform a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Sovan Chakraborty , Tobias Fischer , Alessandro Mirizzi , Ninetta Saviano , Ricard Tomas

We all know that in the dense anisotropic interior of the star, neutrino-neutrino forward-scattering can lead to fast collective neutrino oscillations, which has striking consequences on flavor dependent neutrino emission and can be crucial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-06 Soumya Bhattacharyya

A major challenge of particle physics is determining the neutrino mass ordering (MO). Due to matter effects, the flavor content of the neutrino flux from a Core-Collapse Supernova (CCSN) depends on the true neutrino MO resulting in markedly…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-26 César Jesús-Valls

The neutrinos detected from the next Galactic core-collapse supernova will contain valuable information on the internal dynamics of the explosion. One mechanism leading to a temporal evolution of the neutrino signal is the variation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James P. Kneller , Gail C. McLaughlin , Justin Brockman

In dense environments, standard and non-standard neutrino interactions with the background particles trigger a variety of flavor mechanisms, which can impact r-process nucleosynthetic abundances. Future observations of a(n) (extra)galactic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Maria Cristina Volpe

In core-collapse supernovae, the neutrino density is so large that neutrino flavor instabilities, leading to flavor conversion, can be triggered by the forward scattering of neutrinos among each other, if a crossing between the angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-10 Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

In extreme astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernovae and binary neutron star mergers, neutrinos play a major role in driving various dynamical and microphysical phenomena, such as baryonic matter outflows, the synthesis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 A. B. Balantekin , Michael J. Cervia , Amol V. Patwardhan , Ermal Rrapaj , Pooja Siwach

The unknown neutrino parameters may leave detectable signatures in the supernova (SN) neutrino flux. However, even the contribution from the MSW flavor transition alone could cause ambiguity in the interpretation to the neutrino signals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-08 Shao-Hsuan Chiu

We assert that non-linear features of fast neutrino-flavor conversion (FFC) can be qualitatively different between core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and binary neutron star mergers (BNSMs). This argument arises from recent global FFC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-22 Masamichi Zaizen , Hiroki Nagakura

We study the flavor evolution of a dense gas initially consisting of pure mono-energetic $\nu_e$ and $\bar\nu_e$. Using adiabatic invariants and the special symmetry in such a system we are able to calculate the flavor evolution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Huaiyu Duan , George M. Fuller , J. Carlson , Yong-Zhong Qian

We present an approximate energy-integration method for identifying collisional neutrino flavor instabilities. Direct evaluation of the dispersion relation requires multi-dimensional integrals over neutrino phase space, making systematic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 Jiabao Liu , Hiroki Nagakura

We argue that the small fraction of neutrinos that undergo direction-changing scattering outside of the neutrinosphere could have significant influence on neutrino flavor transformation in core-collapse supernova environments. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-31 John F. Cherry , J. Carlson , Alexander Friedland , George M. Fuller , Alexey Vlasenko

Nonstandard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos with matter can significantly alter neutrino flavor evolution in supernovae with the potential to impact explosion dynamics, nucleosynthesis, and the neutrinos signal. In this paper, we explore,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-07 Charles J. Stapleford , Daavid J. Väänänen , James P. Kneller , Gail C. McLaughlin , Brandon T. Shapiro

Accurate description of neutrino opacities is central both to the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) phenomenon and to the validity of the explosion mechanism itself. In this work, we study in a systematic fashion the role of a variety of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-08 Kei Kotake , Tomoya Takiwaki , Tobias Fischer , Ko Nakamura , Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo

We study theoretical neutrino signals from core-collapse supernova (CCSN) computed using axisymmetric CCSN simulations that cover the post-bounce phase up to $\sim 4$~s. We provide basic quantities of the neutrino signals such as event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Hiroki Nagakura , Adam Burrows , David Vartanyan

Supernova neutrino flavor transitions during the shock wave propagation are known to encode relevant information not only about the matter density profile but also about unknown neutrino properties, such as the mass hierarchy (normal or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , A. Mirizzi , D. Montanino

At the present time even the most sophisticated, multi-dimensional simulations of core-collapse supernovae do not (self-consistently) include neutrino flavor transformation. This physics is missing despite the importance of neutrinos in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 Charles J. Stapleford , Carla Fröhlich , James P. Kneller

We review how a high-statistics observation of the neutrino signal from a future galactic core-collapse supernova (SN) may be used to discriminate between different neutrino mixing scenarios. Most SN neutrinos are emitted in the accretion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Tomas