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We investigate neutrino flavor transformation in the early universe in the presence of a lepton asymmetry, focusing on a two-flavor system with 1 - 3 mixing parameters. We identify five distinct regimes that emerge in an approximate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-07 Lucas Johns , Mattia Mina , Vincenzo Cirigliano , Mark W. Paris , George M. Fuller

We investigate key methodologies of Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook subgrid modeling for neutrino fast flavor conversions (FFC) in core-collapse supernova based on spherically symmetric Boltzmann radiation hydrodynamics simulations. We first examine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-25 Ryuichiro Akaho , Hiroki Nagakura , Shoichi Yamada

Fast neutrino-flavor conversion (FFC) is a possible game-changing ingredient in core-collapse supernova (CCSN) theory. In this paper, we examine the impact of FFC on explosive nucleosynthesis by including the effects of FFC in conjunction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 Shin-ichiro Fujimoto , Hiroki Nagakura

The flavor conversion of a neutrino usually occurs at densities $\lesssim G_F^{-1} \omega$, whether in the ordinary matter or the neutrino medium, and on time/distance scales of order $\omega^{-1}$, where $G_F$ is the Fermi weak coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-22 Sajad Abbar , Huaiyu Duan

We make a strong case that the fast neutrino-flavor conversion, one of the collective flavor oscillation modes, commonly occurs in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). It is confirmed in the numerical data obtained in realistic simulations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Taiki Morinaga , Hiroki Nagakura , Chinami Kato , Shoichi Yamada

There is mounting evidence that neutrinos undergo fast flavor conversion (FFC) in core-collapse supernova (CCSN). In this letter, we investigate the roles of stellar rotation on the occurrence of FFC by carrying out axisymmetric CCSN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-26 Akira Harada , Hiroki Nagakura

In this {\it Letter}, we present a compelling and robust argument for the roles of neutrino fast flavor conversion (FFC) in the explosion mechanism of core-collapse supernova (CCSN), combining the {\it multi-angle} FFC subgrid model rooted…

Fast neutrino flavor conversion can occur in core-collapse supernovae or compact binary merger remnants when non-forward collisions are also at play, and neutrinos are not fully decoupled from matter. This work aims to shed light on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-10 Rasmus S. L. Hansen , Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

Neutrino evolution, of great importance in environments such as neutron star mergers (NSMs) because of their impact on explosive nucleosynthesis, is still poorly understood due to the high complexity and variety of possible flavor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-15 Julien Froustey , Sherwood Richers , Evan Grohs , Samuel D. Flynn , Francois Foucart , James P. Kneller , Gail C. McLaughlin

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

We present numerical relativity simulations of binary neutron star mergers incorporating neutrino flavor transformations triggered by fast flavor instability, quantum many-body effects, or potential beyond standard model physics. In both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 Yi Qiu , David Radice , Sherwood Richers , Federico Maria Guercilena , Albino Perego , Maitraya Bhattacharyya

Dense neutrino systems, which display collectivity mediated by the weak interaction, have deep parallels with mean-field kinetic systems governed by other fundamental forces. We identify analogues in fast flavor conversion (FFC) of some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Jiabao Liu , Lucas Johns , Hiroki Nagakura , Masamichi Zaizen , Shoichi Yamada

Neutrinos propagating in dense neutrino media such as core-collapse supernovae and neutron star merger remnants can experience the so-called fast flavor conversions on scales much shorter than those expected in vacuum. A very generic class…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-31 Sajad Abbar , Francesco Capozzi

The fast flavor conversions (FFCs) of neutrinos generally exist in core-collapse supernovae and binary neutron-star merger remnants, and can significantly change the flavor composition and affect the dynamics and nucleosynthesis processes.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-05 Zewei Xiong , Meng-Ru Wu , Sajad Abbar , Soumya Bhattacharyya , Manu George , Chun-Yu Lin

The neutrino fast flavor instability dominates the evolution of neutrino flavor within the engines of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. However, theoretical models of neutrino flavor change that include many-body quantum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 Zoha Laraib , Sherwood Richers

The neutrino fast flavor instability (FFI) can change neutrino flavor on time scales of nanoseconds and length scales of centimeters. It is expected to be ubiquitous in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers, potentially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-27 Sherwood Richers , Manibrata Sen

We study post weak decoupling coherent active-sterile and active-active matter-enhanced neutrino flavor transformation in the early universe. We show that flavor conversion efficiency at Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein resonances is likely to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-27 Kevork Abazajian , Nicole F. Bell , George M. Fuller , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

Neutrino flavor instabilities have the potential to shuffle neutrinos between electron, mu, and tau flavor states, modifying the core-collapse supernova mechanism and the heavy elements ejected from neutron star mergers. Analytic methods…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-01 Sherwood Richers , Donald Willcox , Nicole ford

Neutrinos from a supernova (SN) might undergo fast flavor conversions near the collapsed stellar core. We perform a detailed study of this intriguing possibility, analyzing time-dependent state-of-the-art 3D SN models of 9 and 20 Msun. Both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 Robert Glas , H. -Thomas Janka , Francesco Capozzi , Manibrata Sen , Basudeb Dasgupta , Alessandro Mirizzi , Guenter Sigl

We investigate the dynamics of fast neutrino flavor conversions (FFCs) in the one-dimensional (1D) and zero-dimensional (0D) models, in which spatial advection is considered and ignored, respectively. In this study, we employ snapshots…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-19 Milad Delfan Azari , Hirokazu Sasaki , Tomoya Takiwaki , Hirotada Okawa