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 …

Neutrinos and nucleosynthesis of elements

T Fischer, G Guo, K Langanke… - Progress in Particle and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Neutrinos are known to play important roles in many astrophysical scenarios from the early
period of the big bang to current stellar evolution being a unique messenger of the fusion …

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 …

Roles of fast neutrino-flavor conversion on the neutrino-heating mechanism of core-collapse supernova

H Nagakura - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
One of the greatest uncertainties in any modeling of the inner engine of core-collapse
supernova (CCSN) is neutrino-flavor conversions driven by neutrino self-interactions. We …

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

Z **ong, 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) …

Evolution of collisional neutrino flavor instabilities in spherically symmetric supernova models

Z **ong, MR Wu, G Martínez-Pinedo, T Fischer… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We implement a multigroup and discrete-ordinate neutrino transport model in spherical
symmetry which allows to simulate collective neutrino oscillations by including realistic …

Comprehensive study of mass ejection and nucleosynthesis in binary neutron star mergers leaving short-lived massive neutron stars

S Fujibayashi, K Kiuchi, S Wanajo… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
By performing general relativistic hydrodynamics simulations with an approximate neutrino
radiation transfer, the properties of ejecta in the dynamical and post-merger phases are …

Characterizing quasisteady states of fast neutrino-flavor conversion by stability and conservation laws

M Zaizen, H Nagakura - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The question of what ingredients characterize the quasisteady state of fast neutrino-flavor
conversion (FFC) is one of the longstanding riddles in neutrino oscillation. Addressing this …

Time-dependent and quasisteady features of fast neutrino-flavor conversion

H Nagakura, M Zaizen - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Despite the theoretical indication that fast neutrino-flavor conversion (FFC) ubiquitously
occurs iin core-collapse supernovae and binary neutron star mergers, the lack of global …