New developments in flavor evolution of a dense neutrino gas

I Tamborra, S Shalgar - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Neutrino–neutrino refraction dominates the flavor evolution in core-collapse supernovae,
neutron star mergers, and the early Universe. Ordinary neutrino flavor conversions develop …

Physical, numerical, and computational challenges of modeling neutrino transport in core-collapse supernovae

A Mezzacappa, E Endeve, OEB Messer… - Living Reviews in …, 2020 - Springer
The proposal that core collapse supernovae are neutrino driven is still the subject of active
investigation more than 50 years after the seminal paper by Colgate and White. The modern …

Fast neutrino flavor conversion in core-collapse supernovae: A parametric study in 1D models

J Ehring, S Abbar, HT Janka, G Raffelt, I Tamborra - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We explore the impact of small-scale flavor conversions of neutrinos, the so-called fast flavor
conversions (FFCs), on the dynamical evolution and neutrino emission of core-collapse …

Evaluating approximate asymptotic distributions for fast neutrino flavor conversions in a periodic 1D box

Z Xiong, MR Wu, S Abbar, S Bhattacharyya, M George… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The fast flavor conversions (FFCs) of neutrinos generally exist in core-collapse supernovae
and binary neutron-star merger remnants and can significantly change the flavor …

Simple method for determining asymptotic states of fast neutrino-flavor conversion

M Zaizen, H Nagakura - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Neutrino-neutrino forward scatterings potentially induce collective neutrino oscillation in
dense neutrino gases in astrophysical sites such as core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) …

Where, when, and why: Occurrence of fast-pairwise collective neutrino oscillation in three-dimensional core-collapse supernova models

H Nagakura, A Burrows, L Johns, GM Fuller - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Fast-pairwise collective neutrino oscillation represents a key uncertainty in the theory of core-
collapse supernova (CCSN). Despite the potentially significant impact on CCSN dynamics, it …

Neutrino fast flavor conversions in neutron-star postmerger accretion disks

X Li, DM Siegel - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
A compact accretion disk may be formed in the merger of two neutron stars or of a neutron
star and a stellar-mass black hole. Outflows from such accretion disks have been identified …

Collisional instabilities of neutrinos and their interplay with fast flavor conversion in compact objects

L Johns, Z Xiong - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Fast and collisional flavor instabilities possibly occur in the neutrino decoupling regions of
core-collapse supernovae and neutron-star mergers. To gain a better understanding of the …

Neutrino fast flavor instability in three dimensions

S Richers, D Willcox, N Ford - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Neutrino flavor instabilities have the potential to shuffle neutrinos between electron, mu, and
tau flavor states, possibly modifying the core-collapse supernova mechanism and the heavy …

Neutrinos from dense environments: Flavor mechanisms, theoretical approaches, observations, and new directions

MC Volpe - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2024 - APS
Neutrino masses and mixings produce vacuum oscillations, an established quantum
mechanical phenomenon. In matter, the Mikheev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect, due to …