How collective modes terminate in the dispersion relation of neutrino plasmas

arXiv:2609.38314 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

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

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Terminology

• Degeneracy — 45× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Anisotropy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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