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In the hot and dense medium of a supernova (SN) core, the nucleon spins fluctuate so fast that the axial-vector neutrino opacity and the axion emissivity are expected to be significantly modified. Axions with $m_a\alt10^{-2}\,{\rm eV}$ are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. -T. Janka , W. Keil , G. Raffelt , D. Seckel

Powerful winds with wide opening angles, likely driven by accretion disks around black holes (BHs), are observed in the majority of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and can play a crucial role in AGN and galaxy evolution. If protons are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-02 Susumu Inoue , Matteo Cerruti , Kohta Murase , Ruo-Yu Liu

The active-sterile neutrino conversion is studied for neutrino propagating in the axial potential generated by magnetised electron plasma in the supernova medium. We consider the effect of random magnetic field $B_{rms}$ on the average…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 Sarira Sahu , Vishnu M. Bannur

We study the neutrino-photon processes like $\gamma\gamma\to\nu\bar{\nu}$ in the presence of uniform external magnetic field for the case when neutrinos can couple to the electromagnetic field directly through their dipole magnetic moment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ashok Goyal

Recently, it has been shown that cosmic neutrino flux at the GRB/AGN source, $F_{\nu_e}^0 : F_{\nu_{\mu}}^0 : F_{\nu_{\tau}}^0 \simeq 1 :2 :0 $, inevitably oscillates (in the three neutrino framework) to 1 : 1: 1, irrespective of the mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 R. Horvat

We study spin effects in the neutrino gravitational scattering by a supermassive black hole with a magnetized accretion disk having a finite thickness. We exactly describe the propagation of ultrarelativistic neutrinos on null geodesics and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-02 Maxim Dvornikov

Recent astronomical observations reveal that Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are sources of high-energy radiation. For example, the Fermi-LAT and Hess telescopes have detected gamma-ray emissions from the cores of several types of AGN's. Even…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-15 J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez , Angelo Martinez

Various supernovae (SN), compact object coalescences, and tidal disruption events are widely believed to occur embedded in active galactic nuclei (AGN) accretion disks and generate detectable electromagnetic (EM) signals. We collectively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Zi-Hang Zhou , Jin-Ping Zhu , Kai Wang

The nucleon-nucleon scattering in a large magnetic background is considered to find its potential to change the neutrino emissivity of the neutron stars. For this purpose we consider the one-pion-exchange approximation to find the NN…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-09 E. Bavarsad , M. Haghighat , R. Mohammadi

We study neutrino conversions in a recently envisaged source of high-energy neutrinos (E \geq 10^6 GeV), that is, in the vicinity of cosmological Gamma-Ray Burst fireballs (GRB). We consider the effects of flavor and spin-flavor conversions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 H. Athar

The supernova (SN) neutronization phase produces mainly electron ($\nu_e$) neutrinos, the oscillations of which must take place within a few mean-free-paths of their resonance surface located nearby their neutrinosphere. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta , Gaetano Lambiase

We study spin and flavor oscillations of astrophysical neutrinos under the influence of external fields in curved spacetime. First, we consider spin oscillations in case of neutrinos gravitationally scattered off a rotating supermassive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-01 Maxim Dvornikov

{Large enough random magnetic fields may affect in an important way neutrino conversion rates, even in the case where neutrinos have zero transition magnetic moments. We consider their effect in the case of active to sterile \neu…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Pastor , V. Semikoz , Jose W. F. Valle

We explore the impact of magnetic field on neutrino-matter interactions in core-collapse supernova. We first derive the modified source terms for neutrino-nucleon scattering and neutrino absorption and emission processes in the moment…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Takami Kuroda

We study the possible impact of the neutrino oscillation which could be induced by a tiny violation of equivalence principle (VEP) for neutrinos emitted from supernova driven by gravitational collapse. Due to the absence of any significant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-23 M. M. Guzzo , H. Nunokawa , R. Tomas

The halo spin flip refers to the phenomenon that the spin axes of dark matter halos with masses above a certain threshold tend to be preferentially aligned perpendicular to the hosting large-scale filaments, while low-mass halos tend to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Jounghun Lee , Noam I Libeskind , Suho Ryu

We propose to test the magnetic transition moments of Majorana neutrinos by comparing the fluxes of different flavours of neutrinos coming from active galactic nuclei (AGN). We show that, with reasonable assumptions about the magnetic field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-03 Kari Enqvist , Petteri Keränen , Jukka Maalampi

Neutrinos emitted from near the surface of the hot proto-neutron star produced by a supernova explosion may be subject to significant gravitational redshift at late times. Electron antineutrinos decouple deeper in the gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 G. M. Fuller , Y. -Z. Qian

Various observations are revealing the widespread occurrence of fast and powerful winds in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that are distinct from relativistic jets, likely launched from accretion disks and interacting strongly with the gas of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Ruo-Yu Liu , Kohta Murase , Susumu Inoue , Chong Ge , Xiang-Yu Wang

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are powerful astronomical objects with very high luminosities. Theoretical arguments suggest that these objects are capable of accelerating particles to energies of 10$^{20}$ eV. In environments with matter or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-31 Sreetama Goswami