Dynamic Competition of Fast and Collisional Neutrino Flavor Instabilities with Collisional Damping in Spatially Inhomogeneous Systems
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| author | Takahashi, Shota Nagakura, Hiroki Zaizen, Masamichi Kato, Chinami Liu, Jiabao |
| author_facet | Takahashi, Shota Nagakura, Hiroki Zaizen, Masamichi Kato, Chinami Liu, Jiabao |
| contents | Neutrino flavor evolution in dense astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernova (CCSN) is influenced by collective effects. While the Fast Flavor Instability (FFI) and the Collisional Flavor Instability (CFI) are recognized as key drivers of rapid flavor conversion, their non-linear competition with collisional damping in spatially varying environments remains poorly understood. Motivated by recent findings that FFI and resonance-like CFI co-occur in the post-bounce phase in CCSN, we scrutinize their dynamic competitions and asymptotic states. To this end, we perform numerical simulations of the quantum kinetic neutrino transport, incorporating both spatial advection and the collision terms. We demonstrate that the interplay between these coexisting neutrino flavor instabilities and collisions leads to rich dynamics. Rather than merely inducing simple decoherence, collisional damping can substantially alter the overall dynamics of collective flavor oscillations, driving the system through complex evolutionary pathways. In all cases where flavor instability develops, we find that the system converges to the same flavor-equilibrated asymptotic state, despite the diversity of intermediate dynamics. Our results suggest that this dynamic competition could alter the widely accepted picture of collisionless FFI, highlighting the need to incorporate realistic collisional effects into studies of flavor conversions in CCSN models. |
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| spellingShingle | Dynamic Competition of Fast and Collisional Neutrino Flavor Instabilities with Collisional Damping in Spatially Inhomogeneous Systems Takahashi, Shota Nagakura, Hiroki Zaizen, Masamichi Kato, Chinami Liu, Jiabao High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Neutrino flavor evolution in dense astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernova (CCSN) is influenced by collective effects. While the Fast Flavor Instability (FFI) and the Collisional Flavor Instability (CFI) are recognized as key drivers of rapid flavor conversion, their non-linear competition with collisional damping in spatially varying environments remains poorly understood. Motivated by recent findings that FFI and resonance-like CFI co-occur in the post-bounce phase in CCSN, we scrutinize their dynamic competitions and asymptotic states. To this end, we perform numerical simulations of the quantum kinetic neutrino transport, incorporating both spatial advection and the collision terms. We demonstrate that the interplay between these coexisting neutrino flavor instabilities and collisions leads to rich dynamics. Rather than merely inducing simple decoherence, collisional damping can substantially alter the overall dynamics of collective flavor oscillations, driving the system through complex evolutionary pathways. In all cases where flavor instability develops, we find that the system converges to the same flavor-equilibrated asymptotic state, despite the diversity of intermediate dynamics. Our results suggest that this dynamic competition could alter the widely accepted picture of collisionless FFI, highlighting the need to incorporate realistic collisional effects into studies of flavor conversions in CCSN models. |
| title | Dynamic Competition of Fast and Collisional Neutrino Flavor Instabilities with Collisional Damping in Spatially Inhomogeneous Systems |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10435 |