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All things Neutrinos, Neutrino Oscillations, transport, and interactions
The behavior of neutrinos in core-collapse supernovae is very different from their usual role as ephemeral larcenists. Neutrinos are the principle mechanism by which energy and lepton number are transported within the explosion, while core-collapse supernovae produce neutrinos in such prodigious quantities that the neutrino signal from a supernova in The Galaxy would allow us to directly...
Neutrinos play a critical role of transporting energy and changing the lepton density within core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and neutron star mergers. The possibility of flavor or angular instabilities in the neutrino distributions have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the CCSN explosion mechanism and neutrino signals. However, understanding these effects will require...
We present the new code NADA-FLD to solve multi-dimensional neutrino-hydrodynamics in full general relativity (GR) in spherical polar coordinates. The neutrino transport assumes the flux-limited diffusion (FLD) approximation and evolves the neutrino energy densities measured in the frame comoving with the fluid. Operator splitting is used to avoid multi-dimensional coupling of grid cells in...
At the present time even the most sophisticated, multi-dimensional simulations of core-collapse supernovae do not (self-consistently) include neutrino flavor transformation. This physics is missing despite the importance of neutrinos in the core-collapse explosion paradigm. Because of this dependence, any flavor transformation that occurs in the region between the proto-neutron star and the...
Neutrinos are the main vector of energy transport in the revival process of a stalled supernova shock. The treatment of their interactions with the medium is therefore an important part of our simulations. One of those interactions is the nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung which will create or annihilate a neutrino/anti-neutrino pair. In this talk, I will present the results for a finer treatment...
