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在超新星解耦区域,中微子会因与物质碰撞而发生味不稳定性吗?

Do Neutrinos Become Flavor Unstable Due to Collisions with Matter in the Supernova Decoupling Region?

Shashank Shalgar, Irene Tamborra

AI总结:

本文基于18.6 M⊙超新星模型求解中微子动力学方程,发现解耦区域内快、慢不稳定性主导,碰撞并非味转换触发因。

摘要:

在核心坍缩超新星中,中微子密度极高,以至于如果电子中微子与反中微子的角分布之间存在交叉(在真空频率趋于零的极限下为快不稳定性),或者在中微子真空频率引发的扰动存在时(慢不稳定性),中微子彼此间的前向散射就可能触发导致味转换的中微子味不稳定性。近来,有研究提出一种猜想,认为中微子与介质的碰撞可能是启动味改变的另一种方式(碰撞不稳定性)。受一个质量为18.6 M⊙的球对称核心坍缩超新星模型启发,我们通过求解平均能量模式的动力学方程来计算中微子角分布,并研究从吸积相到早期冷却相的不同反弹后时刻味不稳定性的发生情况。我们发现,在所有反弹后时刻,解耦区域内的快、慢味不稳定性在很大程度上都主导碰撞不稳定性。尽管还需要更多工作来评估碰撞不稳定性在高中微子密度环境中的相关性,但我们的研究结果表明,如果中微子轻子数角分布中存在交叉,中微子与物质的碰撞会影响解耦区域内的味演化,但并不负责触发味转换。

英文摘要:

In core-collapse supernovae, the neutrino density is so large that neutrino flavor instabilities, leading to flavor conversion, can be triggered by the forward scattering of neutrinos among each other, if a crossing between the angular distributions of electron neutrinos and antineutrinos exists (fast instability in the limit of vanishing vacuum frequency) or in the presence of perturbations induced by the neutrino vacuum frequency (slow instability). Recently, it has been advanced the conjecture that neutrino collisions with the medium could be another mean to kickstart flavor change (collisional instability). Inspired by a spherically symmetric core-collapse supernova model with mass $18.6\ M_\odot$, we compute the neutrino angular distributions solving the kinetic equations for an average energy mode and investigate the occurrence of flavor instabilities at different post-bounce times, ranging from the accretion phase to the early cooling phase. We find that fast and slow flavor instabilities largely dominate over the collisional ones in the decoupling region for all post-bounce times. While more work is needed to assess the relevance of collisional instabilities in neutrino-dense environments, our findings suggest that neutrino collisions with matter affect the flavor evolution in the decoupling region, but are not responsible for triggering flavor conversion, if crossings in the neutrino lepton number angular distribution exist.

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