Journal
PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 800, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135088
Keywords
Neutrino oscillations; Dense neutrino medium; Core-collapse supernova
Funding
- US DOE at UNM [DE-SC0017803]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0017803] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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The flavor transformation in a dense neutrino gas can have a significant impact on the physical and chemical evolution of its surroundings. In this work we demonstrate that a dynamic, fast flavor oscillation wave can develop spontaneously in a one-dimensional (1D) neutrino gas when the angular distributions of the electron neutrino and antineutrino cross each other. Unlike the 2D stationary models which are plagued with small-scale flavor structures, the fast flavor oscillation waves remain coherent in the dynamic 1D model in both the position and momentum spaces of the neutrino. The electron lepton number is redistributed and transported in space as the flavor oscillation wave propagates, although the total lepton number remains constant. This result may have interesting implications in the neutrino emission in and the evolution of the compact objects such as core-collapse supernovae. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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