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 …

Universality of the neutrino collisional flavor instability in core-collapse supernovae

J Liu, R Akaho, A Ito, H Nagakura, M Zaizen, S Yamada - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Neutrinos are known to undergo flavor conversion processes among the three flavors. The
fast flavor conversion (FFC) has been the central piece of flavor conversions taking place in …

Collisional and fast neutrino flavor instabilities in two-dimensional core-collapse supernova simulation with Boltzmann neutrino transport

R Akaho, J Liu, H Nagakura, M Zaizen, S Yamada - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We present a comprehensive study on the occurrences of the collisional flavor instability
(CFI) and the fast flavor instability (FFI) of neutrinos based on a 2D core-collapse supernova …

Physics-informed neural networks for predicting the asymptotic outcome of fast neutrino flavor conversions

S Abbar, MR Wu, Z Xiong - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
In the most extreme astrophysical environments, such as core-collapse supernovae
(CCSNe) and neutron star mergers (NSMs), neutrinos can undergo fast flavor conversions …

Neutrino fast flavor oscillations with moments: Linear stability analysis and application to neutron star mergers

J Froustey, S Richers, E Grohs, SD Flynn, F Foucart… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Providing an accurate modeling of neutrino physics in dense astrophysical environments
such as binary neutron star mergers presents a challenge for hydrodynamic simulations …

Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook subgrid model for neutrino quantum kinetics

H Nagakura, L Johns, M Zaizen - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We present a new subgrid model for neutrino quantum kinetics, which is primarily designed
to incorporate effects of collective neutrino oscillations into neutrino-radiation-hydrodynamic …

Equilibration of quantum many-body fast neutrino flavor oscillations

JD Martin, D Neill, A Roggero, H Duan, J Carlson - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Neutrino gases are expected to form in high-density astrophysical environments, and
accurately modeling their flavor evolution is critical to understanding such environments. In …

Flavor solitons in dense neutrino gases

DFG Fiorillo, GG Raffelt - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We consider a dense neutrino gas in the “fast-flavor limit”(vanishing neutrino masses). For
the first time, we identify exact solutions of the nonlinear wave equation in the form of …

Detecting fast neutrino flavor conversions with machine learning

S Abbar, H Nagakura - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Neutrinos in dense environments like core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and neutron star
mergers (NSMs) can undergo fast flavor conversions (FFCs) once the angular distribution of …

Collisions and collective flavor conversion: Integrating out the fast dynamics

DFG Fiorillo, I Padilla-Gay, GG Raffelt - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
In dense astrophysical environments, notably core-collapse supernovae and neutron star
mergers, neutrino-neutrino forward scattering can spawn flavor conversion on very short …