Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 88, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.045031
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [EXC-153]
- European Union [PITN-GA-2011-289442]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (Portugal) [SFRH/BD/66264/2009]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/66264/2009] Funding Source: FCT
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We construct a simple example for self-induced flavor conversion in dense neutrino gases, showing new solutions that violate the symmetries of initial conditions. Our system consists of two opposite momentum modes 1 and 2, each initially occupied with equal densities of (nu) over bar (e) and (nu) over bar (e). Restricting solutions to symmetry under 1 <-> 2 allows for the usual bimodal instability (flavor pendulum) in the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy and stability (no self-induced flavor conversion) in the normal hierarchy (NH). Lifting this symmetry restriction allows for a second pendulumlike solution that occurs in NH, where the modes 1 and 2 swing in opposite directions in flavor space. Any small deviation from 1-2 symmetry in the initial condition triggers the new instability in NH. This effect corresponds to the recently identified multi-azimuth angle instability of supernova neutrino fluxes. Both cases show explicitly that solutions of the equations of collective flavor oscillations need not inherit the symmetries of initial conditions, although this has been universally assumed.
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