Collective neutrino flavor conversion: recent developments

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2016.02.012zbMATH Open1336.81101arXiv1602.02766OpenAlexW2268832788MaRDI QIDQ288470FDOQ288470

Authors: Sovan Chakraborty, Ignacio Izaguirre, Georg Raffelt, Rasmus Hansen 

Publication date: 26 May 2016

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Neutrino flavor evolution in core-collapse supernovae, neutron-star mergers, or the early universe is dominated by neutrino-neutrino refraction, often spawning "self-induced flavor conversion", i.e., shuffling of flavor among momentum modes. This effect is driven by collective run-away modes of the coupled "flavor oscillators" and can spontaneously break the initial symmetries such as axial symmetry, homogeneity, isotropy, and even stationarity. Moreover, the growth rates of unstable modes can be of the order of the neutrino-neutrino interaction energy instead of the much smaller vacuum oscillation frequency: self-induced flavor conversion does not always require neutrino masses. We illustrate these newly found phenomena in terms of simple toy models. What happens in realistic astrophysical settings is up to speculation at present.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02766

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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