Quasi-linear theory of fast flavor instabilities in homogeneous environments
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| author | Fiorillo, Damiano F. G. Raffelt, Georg G. |
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| contents | Dense neutrino plasmas can develop instabilities that drive collisionless flavor exchange, equivalent to the emission of flavomons, the quanta of flavor waves. We treat these waves, for the first time, as independent linear degrees of freedom and develop a quasi-linear theory (QLT), including backreaction on the neutrino distribution and nonresonant neutrino--flavomon interactions, while neglecting wave--wave processes. In a homogeneous, axisymmetric model, the saturated neutrino and flavomon distributions agree closely with periodic-box solutions of the original quantum kinetic equation. These results support the use of QLT, well established in plasma physics, to bypass nonlinear small-scale effects that challenge direct simulations. |
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| spellingShingle | Quasi-linear theory of fast flavor instabilities in homogeneous environments Fiorillo, Damiano F. G. Raffelt, Georg G. High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Dense neutrino plasmas can develop instabilities that drive collisionless flavor exchange, equivalent to the emission of flavomons, the quanta of flavor waves. We treat these waves, for the first time, as independent linear degrees of freedom and develop a quasi-linear theory (QLT), including backreaction on the neutrino distribution and nonresonant neutrino--flavomon interactions, while neglecting wave--wave processes. In a homogeneous, axisymmetric model, the saturated neutrino and flavomon distributions agree closely with periodic-box solutions of the original quantum kinetic equation. These results support the use of QLT, well established in plasma physics, to bypass nonlinear small-scale effects that challenge direct simulations. |
| title | Quasi-linear theory of fast flavor instabilities in homogeneous environments |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28854 |