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We study neutrino spin-flavor oscillations in presence of rapidly varying external fields. The general formalism for the description of neutrino oscillations in arbitrary rapidly varying external fields is elaborated. We obtain the…

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The flavor evolution of neutrinos in dense astrophysical sources, such as core-collapse supernovae or compact binary mergers, is non-linear due to the coherent forward scattering of neutrinos among themselves. Recent work in this context…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-23 Marie Cornelius , Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

A new analytical approach allowing to account for massive neutrinos in the non-linear description of the growth of the large-scale structure of the universe is proposed. Unlike the standard approach in which neutrinos are described as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Hélène Dupuy , Francis Bernardeau

We investigate the collision-induced flavor instability in homogeneous, isotropic, dense neutrino gases in the two-flavor mixing scenario with energy-dependent scattering. We uncover a simple expression of the growth rate of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-27 Yu-Chia Lin , Huaiyu Duan

In a previous paper a formalism to analyze the dynamical evolution of classical and quantum probability distributions in terms of their moments was presented. Here the application of this formalism to the system of a particle moving on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-19 David Brizuela

A dense neutrino medium could experience self-induced flavor conversions on relatively small scales in the presence of the so-called fast flavor conversion modes. Owing to the fact that fast conversion scales could be much smaller than the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Sajad Abbar , Maria Cristina Volpe

Neutrino flavour transmutations in nonuniform matter are described by a Schr\"{o}dinger-like evolution equation with coordinate-dependent potential. In all the derivations of this equation it is assumed that the potential, which is due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Evgeny Akhmedov

Hamiltonian mechanics describes the evolution of a system through its Hamiltonian. The Hamiltonian typically also represents the energy observable, a Noether-conserved quantity associated with the time-invariance of the law of evolution. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Libo Jiang , Daniel R. Terno , Oscar Dahlsten

We study the time evolution of the distribution functions for hot and or degenerate gases of two flavors of Dirac neutrinos as a result of flavor mixing and dephasing. This is achieved by obtaining the time evolution of the flavor density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Boyanovsky , C. M. Ho

Normal mode dynamics are ubiquitous underlying the motions of diverse systems from rotating stars to crystal structures. These behaviors are composed of simple collective motions of particles which move with the same frequency and phase,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-15 D. K. Watson

We propose a theory for neutrino oscillations, in which the flavour neutrinos are treated as waves of massless particles propagating in a "refractive quantum vacuum" and obeying a relativistically covariant equation of motion. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Markku Oksanen , Nico Stirling , Anca Tureanu

We present $\nu$-Flows, a novel method for restricting the likelihood space of neutrino kinematics in high energy collider experiments using conditional normalizing flows and deep invertible neural networks. This method allows the recovery…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-19 Matthew Leigh , John Andrew Raine , Knut Zoch , Tobias Golling

The mass-varying neutrino scenario is analyzed for three trial quintessence potentials (Ferreira-Joyce, inverse exponential, and thawing oscillating). The neutrino mass is generated via Yukawa coupling to the scalar field which represents…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Sayan Mandal , Gennady Y. Chitov , Olga Avsajanishvili , Bijit Singha , Tina Kahniashvili

Neutrino oscillation experiments provide a unique tool for probing neutrino-matter interactions, especially those involving the tau neutrino. We describe the sensitivity of the present atmospheric neutrino data to these interactions in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Friedland , Cecilia Lunardini , Michele Maltoni

A new chapter is opening in the theory of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers as simulations of these events begin to incorporate fast flavor conversion (FFC) and other forms of neutrino flavor mixing. Using numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-14 Erick Urquilla , Lucas Johns

On the basis of quantum field theory, we consider a unified description of various processes accompanied by neutrinos, namely weak decays and oscillation processes. The structures of the expectation values of flavor-neutrino numbers with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-04 Kanji Fujii , Norihito Toyota

Motivated by the astrophysical problems of star formations from molecular clouds,we make the first step on the possible long time behaviors of certain irregularly-shaped molecular clouds. We emphasis the main difficulty of the blowups of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Chao Liu

The flavor composition of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos can reveal the physics governing their production, propagation, and interaction. The IceCube Collaboration has published the first experimental determination of the ratio of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-21 Mauricio Bustamante , John F. Beacom , Walter Winter

We consider neutrino evolution master equations in dense moving and polarized matter consisted of electrons, neutrons, protons and neutrinos. We also take into account the neutrino magnetic moment interaction with a magnetic field. We point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Zekun Chen , Konstantin Kouzakov , Yu-Feng Li , Vadim Shakhov , Konstantin Stankevich , Alexander Studenikin

We consider several aspects related to the form, derivation and applications of the Liouville equation (LE) for flavour evolution of neutrinos. To take into account the quantum nature of neutrinos we derive the evolution equation for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Rasmus Sloth Lundkvist Hansen , Alexei Yu. Smirnov