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 …

Solar neutrino physics

XJ Xu, Z Wang, S Chen - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
As a free, intensive, rarely interactive, and well directional messenger, solar neutrinos have
been driving both solar physics and neutrino physics developments for more than half a …

Diffuse supernova neutrino background search at Super-Kamiokande

K Abe, C Bronner, Y Hayato, K Hiraide, M Ikeda… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We have conducted a new search for the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB)
flux at Super-Kamiokande (SK), with a 22.5× 2970-kton· day exposure from its fourth …

Search for astrophysical electron antineutrinos in Super-Kamiokande with 0.01% gadolinium-loaded water

M Harada, K Abe, C Bronner, Y Hayato… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the first search result for the flux of astrophysical electron antineutrinos for
energies () 10 MeV in the gadolinium-loaded Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector. In 2020 …

Dark matter decay to neutrinos

CA Argüelles, D Delgado, A Friedlander, A Kheirandish… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
It is possible that the strongest interactions between dark matter and the Standard Model
occur via the neutrino sector. Unlike gamma rays and charged particles, neutrinos provide a …

Limits on astrophysical antineutrinos with the KamLAND experiment

S Abe, S Asami, A Gando, Y Gando… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on a search for electron antineutrinos (ne) from astrophysical sources in the
neutrino energy range 8.3–30.8 MeV with the KamLAND detector. In an exposure of 6.72 …

Prospects for detecting the diffuse supernova neutrino background with JUNO

A Abusleme, T Adam, S Ahmad, R Ahmed… - … of Cosmology and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the detection potential for the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) at
the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), using the inversebeta-decay …

Leptogenesis driven by a Majoron

EJ Chun, TH Jung - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We propose a leptogenesis scenario where baryon asymmetry generation is assisted by the
kinetic motion of the Majoron, J, in the process of lepton-number violating inverse decays of …

Updated constraints and future prospects on majoron dark matter

K Akita, M Niibo - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Majorons are (pseudo-) Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with lepton number
symmetry breaking due to the Majorana mass term of neutrinos introduced in the seesaw …

Diffuse neutrino background from past core collapse supernovae

N EKANGER, S HORIUCHI, Y KOSHIO - Proceedings of the Japan …, 2023 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Core collapse supernovae are among the most powerful explosions in the Universe, which
emit thermal neutrinos that carry away most of the gravitational binding energy released …