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We investigate toy models for spatial and temporal instabilities in collective neutrino oscillations induced by neutrino self-interactions, with special emphasis on inhomogeneous systems with densities following a profile. Simulations are…

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Neutrino properties can be constrained by the detection of ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos (UHECNs). By using the updated global fitting results of neutrino mixing parameters, we present predictions on the neutrino flavor ratios at the…

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We assess a mechanism which can transform neutrino-antineutrino asymmetries between flavors in the early universe, and confirm that such transformation is unavoidable in the near bi-maximal framework emerging for the neutrino mixing matrix.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kevork N. Abazajian , John F. Beacom , Nicole F. Bell

In light of recent results from the LHC, MEG and neutrino experiments, we revisit the issue of charged lepton flavour violation (LFV) in supersymmetric theories with massive neutrinos, where flavour-violating soft supersymmetry-breaking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-31 Mirco Cannoni , John Ellis , Mario E. Gomez , Smaragda Lola

We discuss flavor-mixing probabilities and flavor ratios of high energy astrophysical neutrinos. In the first part of this paper, we expand the neutrino flavor-fluxes in terms of the small parameters U_{e3} and pi/4 - theta_{23}, and show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sandip Pakvasa , Werner Rodejohann , Thomas J. Weiler

Lepton flavor violation in various sectors of the theory can bring important effects on neutrino masses and mixing through wave function renormalization. We examine general conditions for flavor structure of radiative corrections producing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Eung Jin Chun

Over cosmic distances, astrophysical neutrino oscillations average out to a classical flavor propagation matrix $\mathscr{P}$. Thus, flavor ratios injected at the cosmic source $W_e,W_\mu,W_\tau$ evolve to flavor ratios at Earthly detectors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-04 Lingjun Fu , Chiu Man Ho , Thomas J. Weiler

Neutrino flavor evolution in core-collapse supernovae, neutron-star mergers, or the early universe is dominated by neutrino-neutrino refraction, often spawning "self-induced flavor conversion", i.e., shuffling of flavor among momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Sovan Chakraborty , Rasmus Sloth Hansen , Ignacio Izaguirre , Georg Raffelt

Flavor-dependent neutrino emission is critical to the evolution of a supernova and its neutrino signal. In the dense anisotropic interior of the star, neutrino-neutrino forward-scattering can lead to fast collective neutrino oscillations,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-22 Soumya Bhattacharyya , Basudeb Dasgupta

We show that if neutrinos are pseudo-Dirac, they can potentially affect the flavor ratio predictions for the high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux observed by IceCube. In this context, we point out a novel matter effect induced by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-10 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Pedro A. N. Machado , Ivan Martinez-Soler

In the early Universe, as well as in supernovae and merging neutron stars, neutrinos have such high densities that they affect each other and exhibit collective flavor oscillations. A crucial ingredient for fast collective flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-06 Soumya Bhattacharyya , Basudeb Dasgupta

We discuss a new kind of astrophysical transport problem: the coherent evolution of neutrino flavor in core collapse supernovae. Solution of this problem requires a numerical approach which can simulate accurately the quantum mechanical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-09 Huaiyu Duan , George M. Fuller , J. Carlson

A dense neutrino gas, such as the one anticipated in the supernova environment, can experience fast neutrino flavor conversions on scales much shorter than those expected in vacuum probably provided that the angular distributions of $\nu_e$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 Sajad Abbar , Huaiyu Duan , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Tomoya Takiwaki , Maria Cristina Volpe

The neutrino flux close to a supernova core contributes substantially to neutrino refraction so that flavor oscillations become a nonlinear phenomenon. One unexpected consequence is efficient flavor transformation for anti-neutrinos in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergio Pastor , Georg Raffelt

Collective oscillations in dense neutrino gases (flavor waves) are notable for their instabilities that cause fast flavor conversion. We develop a quantum theory of interacting neutrinos and flavor wave quanta, which are analogous to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-03 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Georg G. Raffelt

The impact of neutrino flavor conversion on the supernova mechanism is yet to be fully understood. We present multi-energy and multi-angle solutions of the neutrino quantum kinetic equations in three flavors, without employing any…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-15 Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

We show that a self-interacting neutrino gas can spontaneously acquire a non-stationary pulsating component in its flavor content, with a frequency that can exactly cancel the "multi-angle" refractive effects of dense matter. This can then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-06 Basudeb Dasgupta , Alessandro Mirizzi

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

Collective flavor oscillations driven by neutrino-neutrino self interaction inside core-collapse supernovae have now been shown to bring drastic changes in the resultant neutrino fluxes. This would in turn significantly affect the diffuse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-29 Sovan Chakraborty , Sandhya Choubey , Basudeb Dasgupta , Kamales Kar

We review the particle physics ingredients affecting the normalization, shape, and flavor composition of astrophysical neutrinos fluxes, such as different production modes, magnetic field effects on the secondaries (muons, pions, kaons),…

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