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Accurate neutrino transport is crucial for reliably modeling explosive astrophysical events like core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and neutron star mergers (NSMs). However, in these extremely neutrino-dense systems, flavor oscillations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-29 Lucas Johns , Sherwood Richers , Meng-Ru Wu

Neutrino interactions with matter play an important role in determining the nucleosynthesis outcome in explosive astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernovae or mergers of compact objects. In this article, we first discuss…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Meng-Ru Wu , Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo , Yong-Zhong Qian

In this review, the effect of flavor oscillations on the neutrinos released during supernova explosion after core collapse is described. In some scenarios there are large enhancement of the number of events compared to the no oscillation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandhya Choubey , Kamales Kar

I shall review some of the recent results concerning the astrophysics of a core collapse supernova (SN) and neutrino oscillations. Neutrinos play an important role in the SN explosion, and they also carry most of the energy of the collapse.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Amol Dighe

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

Space-time localization diagrams ``unlock" subtle aspects of $\nu$ oscillations such as coherence and entanglement. Observability of propagation decoherence in oscillating neutrino state is discussed. The sizes of WPs of reactor and source…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-21 Alexei Y Smirnov

Neutrinos play a crucial role in the collapse and explosion of massive stars, governing the infall dynamics of the stellar core, triggering and fueling the explosion and driving the cooling and deleptonization of the newly formed neutron…

The aim of these notes is to provide a brief review of the topic of neutrino astronomy and in particular of neutrinos from core collapse supernovae. They are addressed to a curious reader, beginning to work in a multidisciplinary area that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Flavio Cavanna , Maria Laura Costantini , Ornella Palamara , Francesco Vissani

Neutrinos play a key role in core-collapse supernova explosions. Carrying information from deep inside the stellar core, neutrinos are direct probes of the supernova mechanism. Intriguing recent developments on the role of neutrinos in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-26 Irene Tamborra

Fast flavor conversions of supernova neutrinos, possible near the neutrinosphere, depends on an interesting interplay of collisions and neutrino oscillations. Contrary to naive expectations, the rate of self-induced neutrino oscillations,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-13 Francesco Capozzi , Basudeb Dasgupta , Alessandro Mirizzi , Manibrata Sen , Günter Sigl

We compute the effect of collapse models on neutrino oscillations. The effect of the collapse is to modify the evolution of the `spatial' part of the wave function, which indirectly amounts to a change on the flavor components. In many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Donadi , A. Bassi , C. Curceanu , L. Ferialdi

Here I review some nuclear physics aspects of core-collapse supernovae concerning neutrinos. Studies of neutrino emission and interactions in supernovae are crucial to our understanding of the explosion mechanism, the heavy element…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yong-Zhong Qian

Neutrinos are known to play important roles in many astrophysical scenarios from the early period of the big bang to current stellar evolution being a unique messenger of the fusion reactions occurring in the center of our sun. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 Tobias Fischer , Gang Guo , Karlheinz Langanke , Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo , Yong-Zhong Qian , Meng-Ru Wu

We investigate neutrino oscillations from core-collapse supernovae that produce magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) explosions. By calculating numerically the flavor conversion of neutrinos in the highly non-spherical envelope, we study how the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-02 Shio Kawagoe , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake

Neutrinos are believed to have a key role in the explosion mechanism of core-collapse supernovae as they carry most of the energy released by the gravitational collapse of a massive star. If their flavor is converted fast inside the…

The effects of three-flavor neutrino oscillation on the supernova neutrino spectrum are studied. We calculate the expected event rate and energy spectra, and their time evolution at the Superkamiokande (SK) and the Sudbury Neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 K. Takahashi , M. Watanabe , K. Sato , T. Totani

Neutrino masses and mixings produce vacuum oscillations, an established quantum mechanical phenomenon. In matter, the Mikheev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect, due to neutrino interactions with the background particles, triggers resonant flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-11 M. Cristina Volpe

Using the Einstein-Cartan-Dirac theory, we study the effect of torsion on neutrino oscillation. We see that torsion cannot induce neutrino oscillation, but affects it whenever oscillation exists for other reasons. We show that the torsion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. alimohammadi , A. Shariati

Neutrinos emitted during stellar core collapse leading to a supernova are primarily of the electron neutrino type at source which may undergo oscillation between flavor eigenstates during propagation to an earth-bound detector. Although the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Debasish Majumdar , Kamales Kar , Alak Ray , Amitava Raychaudhuri , Firoza K. Sutaria

Neutrinos dominate the energetics of core-collapse supernovae, and are believed to play an important role in driving the explosion. The development of a spatially multidimensional neutrino radiative transfer code is a key part of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Y. Cardall
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