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We investigate resonant spin-flavor (RSF) conversions of supernova neutrinos which are induced by the interaction of neutrino magnetic moment and supernova magnetic fields. From the formulation which includes all three-flavor neutrinos and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Shin'ichiro Ando , Katsuhiko Sato

We assess the occurrence of fast neutrino flavor instabilities in two three-dimensional state-of-the-art core-collapse supernova simulations performed using a two-moment three-species neutrino transport scheme: one with an exploding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Sajad Abbar , Francesco Capozzi , Robert Glas , H. -Thomas Janka , Irene Tamborra

Neutrino-neutrino refraction in dense media can cause self-induced flavor conversion triggered by collective run-away modes of the interacting flavor oscillators. The growth rates were usually found to be of order a typical vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-25 Sovan Chakraborty , Rasmus Sloth Hansen , Ignacio Izaguirre , Georg Raffelt

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

Dense clouds of neutrinos and antineutrinos can exhibit fast collective flavor oscillations. Previously, in Phys. Rev. Lett. 126 (2021) 061302, we proposed that such flavor oscillations lead to depolarization, i.e., an irreversible mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-29 Soumya Bhattacharyya , Basudeb Dasgupta

We perform one-zone simulations of the infall epoch of a pre-supernova stellar core in the presence of neutrino flavor changing scattering interactions. Our calculations give a self-consistent assessment of the relationship between flavor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Philip S. Amanik , George M. Fuller

Precise measurements of the flavor ratio of high energy astronomical neutrinos (HANs) would be promising in the following decades. Then matter effects and new physics effects on the flavor transition of HANs could be tested. In this paper,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-24 Ding-Hui Xu , Shu-Jun Rong

Flavor transitions of Neutrinos with a nonstandard interaction are studied. A scalar field is conformally coupled to matter and neutrinos. This interaction alters the neutrino effective mass and its wavefunction leading to a damping factor,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-25 H. Mohseni Sadjadi , H. Yazdani Ahmadabadi

The dependence of the semileptonic kaon decay form factors on the 4-momentum transfer to the lepton pair causes certain changes in the differential decay rates and, hence, it should affect the conventional atmospheric neutrino flux and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 V. A. Naumov , T. S. Sinegovskaya , S. I. Sinegovsky

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

A dense neutrino medium can experience collective flavor oscillations through nonlinear neutrino-neutrino refraction. To make this multi-dimensional flavor transport problem more tractable, all existing studies have assumed certain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Huaiyu Duan , Shashank Shalgar

We examine coherent active-active channel neutrino flavor evolution in environments where neutrino-neutrino forward scattering can engender large-scale collective flavor transformation. We point out a key quantity, the "total effective…

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

We study the fully nonlinear fast flavor evolution of neutrinos in 1+1 dimensions. Our numerical analysis shows that at late time the system reaches an approximately steady state. Using the steady state approximation we analytically show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-23 Soumya Bhattacharyya , Basudeb Dasgupta

A neutrino propagating through fluctuating matter can experience large amplitude transitions between its states. Such transitions occur in supernovae and compact object mergers due to turbulent matter profiles and neutrino…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Yue Yang , James P. Kneller

Observation of the ultra-high energy neutrinos, in particular, detection of $\nu_{\tau}$ from cosmologically distant sources like active galactic nuclei (AGN) opens new possibilities to search for neutrino flavor conversion. We consider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 Hisakazu Minakata , Alexei Yu. Smirnov

Neutrino masses and mixings have important implications for models of fermion masses, and, most directly, for the charged lepton sector. We consider supersymmetric Abelian flavor models, where neutrino mass parameters are related to those…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Jonathan L. Feng , Yosef Nir , Yael Shadmi

Neutrinos produced in the atmosphere traverse a column density of air before being detected at neutrino observatories like IceCube or KM3NeT. In this work, we extend the neutrino flavor evolution in the {nuSQuIDS} code accounting for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-21 Connor Sponsler , Matheus Hostert , Ivan Martinez-Soler , Carlos A. Argüelles

The fast flavor instability (FFI) is expected to be ubiquitous in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. It rapidly shuffles neutrino flavor in a way that could impact the explosion mechanism, neutrino signals, mass outflows,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Sherwood Richers , Huaiyu Duan , Meng-Ru Wu , Soumya Bhattacharyya , Masamichi Zaizen , Manu George , Chun-Yu Lin , Zewei Xiong

Investigations on the resonance in the collisional flavor instability (CFI) of neutrinos, which were reported recently, are reported. We show that the resonance occurs not only for the isotropy-preserving modes as pointed out in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Jiabao Liu , Masamichi Zaizen , Shoichi Yamada

The usual description of self-induced flavor conversions for neutrinos (\nu's) in supernovae is based on the simplified assumption that all the \nu's of the different species are emitted "half-isotropically" by a common neutrinosphere, in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Alessandro Mirizzi , Pasquale D. Serpico