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Intermittent Turbulence, Fast Flavor Conversion, and Observable Supernova Probes

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2026-05-14 v3

Abstract

Fast flavor conversion (FFC) in core-collapse supernovae is usually analyzed in homogeneous backgrounds or with smooth stochastic turbulence closures. We construct an exact linear benchmark in which the matter-noise memory kernel is instead generated by a finite She--Leveque log-Poisson cascade. Projecting the marginal FFC channel onto this kernel gives a causal Volterra equation whose non-Markovian memory closes into a finite local system. The resulting Laplace-space resolvent is rational, with one pole pair for each cascade level, so the dispersion relation, characteristic polynomial, and time-domain solution can be checked analytically. We then connect this benchmark to the realization-level toy model and gain-region heating proxy used in the supplementary derivation. For the updated intermittent choice δρ/ρ=0.4\delta\rho/\langle\rho\rangle=0.4, λˉ/μ=1\bar\lambda/\mu=1, and hence κ0=0.16\kappa_0=0.16, the representative N=2N=2, r=2r=2 cascade gives σint2=1.124\sigma_{\rm int}^2=1.124 and an intermittent conversion fraction 1Pbase0.4551-P_{\rm base}\simeq0.455. The older weaker normalization κ0=0.05\kappa_0=0.05 gives 1Pbase0.3241-P_{\rm base}\simeq0.324. The corresponding Mori-like heating ratios are Qint/Qhom=1.060Q_{\rm int}/Q_{\rm hom}=1.060 and 1.0411.041, whereas the Wang/Fornax-like ratios are 0.8550.855 and 0.8990.899. Thus intermittency mainly controls the conversion fraction, while the neutrino spectral hierarchy controls the sign of the heating correction.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2601.11272,
  title  = {Intermittent Turbulence, Fast Flavor Conversion, and Observable Supernova Probes},
  author = {Yiwei Bao and Andrea Addazi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.11272},
  year   = {2026}
}
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