Collective flavor conversion in dense neutrino plasmas

arXiv:2609.19256 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-16 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-09-16

Updated: 2026-09-16

Comments: Contribution to Encyclopedia of Nuclear Physics

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 20× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entanglement — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decoupling — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Conservation Laws — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Homogeneity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Wigner function — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Boltzmann Equation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Effective Hamiltonian — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Within the Standard Model — 1× in this paper

Sources

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• Neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae
• Neutrino Quantum Kinetics
• A New Spin on Neutrino Quantum Kinetics
• Quantum transport theory for neutrinos with flavor and particle-antiparticle mixing
• Extended evolution equations for neutrino propagation in astrophysical and cosmological environments
• Neutrino-antineutrino correlations in dense anisotropic media
• Neutrino decoupling including flavour oscillations and primordial nucleosynthesis
• Inhomogeneous Kinetic Equation for Mixed Neutrinos: Tracing the Missing Energy
• Collective neutrino-antineutrino oscillations in dense neutrino environments?
• Neutrino propagation in media: Flavor-, helicity-, and pair correlations
• Theory of neutrino fast flavor evolution. Part I. Linear response theory and stability conditions
• Theory of neutrino fast flavor evolution. Part II. Solutions at the edge of instability
• Theory of neutrino slow flavor evolution. Part I. Homogeneous medium
• Theory of neutrino slow flavor evolution. Part II. Space-time evolution of linear instabilities
• Dispersion relation of the neutrino plasma: Unifying fast, slow, and collisional instabilities
• Lepton number crossings are insufficient for flavor instabilities

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