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We point out that solar neutrino oscillations with large mixing angle as evidenced in current solar neutrino data have a strong impact on strategies for diagnosing collapse-driven supernova (SN) through neutrino observations. Such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 H. Minakata , H. Nunokawa , R. Tomas , J. W. F. Valle

I review some theoretical aspects of neutrino oscillations in the case when more than two neutrino flavours are involved. These include: approximate analytic solutions for 3-flavour (3f) oscillations in matter; matter effects in nu_mu -…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Kh. Akhmedov

We present a linear stability analysis of the fast-pairwise neutrino flavor conversion based on a result of our latest axisymmetric core-collapse supernova (CCSN) simulation with full Boltzmann neutrino transport. In the CCSN simulation,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Hiroki Nagakura , Taiki Morinaga , Chinami Kato , Shoichi Yamada

The excess observed in the MiniBooNE experiment data has been confirmed by several data-releases and analysis. And several attempts to explain such excess are proposed in the litterature using approaches ranging from experimental error to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-29 M. L. Abdelali , N. Mebarki , B. Boutaghane , M. Trirat

We analytically determine neutrino transitional probabilities and abundance ratios at various distances from the source of creation in several astrophysical contexts, including the Sun, supernovae and cosmic rays. In doing so, we determine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-11 John Harrison , Richard Anantua

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

The Phase-Space Approximation (PSA) approach, originally applied in [Phys. Rev. D 106, 123006 (2022)] to describe neutrino oscillations from a stellar object in the two-flavor limit, is extended here to describe the more realistic case…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-25 Mariane Mangin-Brinet , Angel Bauge , Denis Lacroix

The prompt nu_e burst from a core-collapse supernova (SN) is subject to both matter-induced flavor conversions and strong neutrino-neutrino refractive effects. For the lowest-mass progenitors, leading to O-Ne-Mg core SNe, the matter density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Dasgupta , A. Dighe , A. Mirizzi , G. G. Raffelt

In this paper we study the dynamics of flavor transformation for neutrinos propagating in the very dense environment of astrophysical compact objects as Type II supernova in post collapse phase and proto-neutron stars. The analysis is based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-23 Marcello Baldo , Vincenzo Palmisano

We reexamine the constraints on mixing between electron and muon or tau neutrinos from shock-reheating and r-process nucleosynthesis in supernovae. To this end neutrino flavor evolution is described by nonlinear equations following from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 G. Sigl

The present paper highlights the data analysis status of the OPERA experiment. The experiment was designed to perform the neutrino interactions analysis on event-by-event basis, and optimized to search for $\nu_{\mu} \rightarrow \nu_{\tau}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 T. A. Dzhatdoev , V. L. Troshina

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

Rapid progress has been made during recent years in the understanding of the flavour oscillations that occur as neutrinos traverse through supernova. The previous paradigm has given way and it is now clear that the neutrino signals we shall…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-19 Huaiyu Duan , James P Kneller

We give a convenient expression for the appearance probability P(nu_mu -> nu_e) describing neutrino oscillations in matter of constant density, derived using textbook quantum mechanics stratagems. Our formulation retains the clarity of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-01 W. Anthony Mann , Tomas Kafka , Jacob Schneps , Ozgur Altinok

We show that, in the relativistic limit, the quantum theory of neutrino oscillations can be described through the theory of weak measurements with pre and post-selection. The weak nature of neutrino detection allows simultaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Yago P. Porto-Silva , Marcos C. de Oliveira

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 investigate the effective case of two-flavor neutrino oscillations in infinitely dense matter by using a perturbative approach. We begin by briefly summarizing the conditions for the three-flavor neutrino oscillation probabilities to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mattias Blennow , Tommy Ohlsson

A novel method to look for neutrino oscillations is proposed based on the elastic scattering process $\bar{\nu}_{i} e^{-}\rightarrow \bar{\nu}_{i} e^{-}$, taking advantage of the dynamical zero present in the differential cross section for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-14 J. Segura , J. Bernabéu , F. J. Botella , J. A. Peñarrocha

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

Flavour oscillations of sub-GeV atmospheric neutrinos and antineutrinos, traversing different distances inside the Earth, are a promising source of information on the leptonic CP phase $\delta$. In that energy range, the oscillations are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Ara Ioannisian , Stefan Pokorski , Janusz Rosiek , Michal Ryczkowski