Quasi-steady flavor configuration of multi-energy neutrino ensembles

arXiv:2608.06464 · astro-ph.HE, hep-ph · Submitted 2026-08-06 · Read on arXiv

Manuel Goimil-García, Irene Tamborra

astro-ph.HE, hep-ph

Submitted: 2026-08-06

Updated: 2026-08-10

Comments: 11 pages, including 6 figures

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: Neutrino flavor conversion profoundly impacts the explosion mechanism and multi-messenger emissions of core-collapse supernovae.

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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.

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