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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 86, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.125020
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [EXC-153]
- European Union [PITN-GA-2011-289442]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (Portugal)
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The dense neutrino flux streaming from a core-collapse supernova can undergo self-induced flavor conversion caused by neutrino-neutrino refraction. Numerical studies of these nonlinear effects are challenging because representing the neutrino radiation field by discrete energy and angle bins can easily lead to unphysical solutions. In particular, if the number of angle bins N-a is too small, flavor conversion begins too deep and produces completely spurious results. At the same time, N-a = 1 (single-angle approximation) can be a good proxy for the N-a -> infinity limit. Based on a linearized stability analysis, we explain some of the puzzling effects of discrete angle distributions. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.125020
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