Quasisteady flavor configuration of multienergy neutrino ensembles
Neutrino flavor conversion profoundly impacts the explosion mechanism and multi-messenger emissions of core-collapse supernovae. Yet, state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of neutrino-dense astrophysical environments cannot account for neutrino quantum kinetics, necessitating subgrid schemes to model the impact of neutrino self-interaction on the quasi-steady-state flavor configuration. We present semi-analytical approximations for the outcomes of both slow and fast flavor conversions in quasi-homogeneous systems with periodic boundary conditions. Independent of the mass ordering, our ansatz demonstrates excellent agreement with multi-angle and multi-energy solutions of the neutrino kinetic equations across a wide range of representative (anti)neutrino distributions.
Authors
- Irene Tamborra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7449-104X)
- Manuel Goimil-García (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0518-9274)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
- Published
- 2026-10-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/3w9f-wyvl
- Primary Topic
- Neutrino Physics Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- European Commission