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Neutrinos emitted in the coalescence of two neutron stars affect the dynamics of the outflow ejecta and the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements. In this work, we analyze the neutrino emission properties and the conditions leading to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-16 Manu George , Meng-Ru Wu , Irene Tamborra , Ricard Ardevol-Pulpillo , Hans-Thomas Janka

We investigate matter-enhanced Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) active-sterile neutrino conversion in the $\nu_e \rightleftharpoons \nu_s$ channel in the collapse of the iron core of a pre-supernova star. For values of sterile neutrino…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jun Hidaka , George M. Fuller

Neutrinos are densely populated deep inside the core of massive stars after their gravitational collapse to produce supernova explosions and form compact stars such as neutron stars (NS) and black holes (BH). It has been considered that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 Milad Delfan Azari , Shoichi Yamada , Taiki Morinaga , Wakana Iwakami , Hirotada Okawa , Hiroki Nagakura , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi

We investigate the collective neutrino oscillations under the three flavor multi-angle approximation in a spherically symmetric simulation of failed supernovae. A failed supernova emits high neutrino fluxes in a short time, while intense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 Masamichi Zaizen , Takashi Yoshida , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Hideyuki Umeda

We study the resonant spin-flavor (RSF) conversion of supernova neutrinos, which is induced by the interaction between the nonzero neutrino magnetic moment and the supernova magnetic fields, and its dependence on presupernova models. As the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Shin'ichiro Ando , Katsuhiko Sato

Neutrino and antineutrino fluxes from a core-collapse galactic supernova are studied, within a representative three-flavor scenario with inverted mass hierarchy and tiny 1-3 mixing. The initial flavor evolution is dominated by collective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-23 Gianluigi Fogli , Eligio Lisi , Antonio Marrone , Irene Tamborra

We present results of 3-neutrino flavor evolution simulations for the neutronization burst from an O-Ne-Mg core-collapse supernova. We find that nonlinear neutrino self-coupling engineers a single spectral feature of stepwise conversion in…

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

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

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 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 three-flavor collective neutrino transformations in the dense-neutrino region above the neutrino sphere of a supernova core. We find that two-flavor conversions driven by the atmospheric mass difference and the 13-mixing angle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Andreu Esteban-Pretel , Sergio Pastor , Ricard Tomas , Georg G. Raffelt , Gunter Sigl

We examine the propagation and flavor oscillations of neutrinos under the influence of gravitational waves (GWs) with an arbitrary polarization. We rederive the effective Hamiltonian for the system of three neutrino flavors using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-24 Maxim Dvornikov

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 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

If $\nu_\mu$ or $\nu_\tau$ mix with $\nu_e$, neutrino oscillations and collisions in a supernova (SN) core allow these flavors effectively to participate in $\beta$ equilibrium and thus to obtain a large chemical potential. If a sterile…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 G. Raffelt , G. Sigl

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

Self-induced flavor conversion of supernova (SN) neutrinos is a generic feature of neutrino-neutrino dispersion. The corresponding run-away modes in flavor space can spontaneously break the original symmetries of the neutrino flux and in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-04 Sovan Chakraborty , Rasmus Sloth Hansen , Ignacio Izaguirre , Georg Raffelt

Neutrinos in dense environments undergo collective pair conversions $\nu_e\bar{\nu}_e \leftrightarrow \nu_x\bar{\nu}_x$, where $x$ is a non-electron flavor, due to forward scattering off each other that may be a crucial ingredient for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-02 Basudeb Dasgupta , Manibrata Sen

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

Although Galactic core-collapse supernovae (SNe) only happen a few times per century, every hour a vast number of explosions happen in the whole universe, emitting energy in the form of neutrinos, resulting in the diffuse supernova neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-20 Zahra Tabrizi , Shunsaku Horiuchi