[Submitted on 18 May 2023] (cross-list from astro-ph.HE)
Fast Neutrino Flavor Conversions can Help and Hinder Neutrino-Driven Explosions
Jakob Ehring (1,2,3)🇩🇪 · Sajad Abbar (1)🇩🇪 · Hans-Thomas Janka (2)🇩🇪 · Georg Raffelt (1)🇩🇪 · Irene Tamborra (4) ((1) MPI Physik, (2) MPI Astrophysik, (3) TUM Garching, (4) Niels Bohr Institute)🇩🇰
We present the first simulations of core-collapse supernovae in axial symmetry with feedback from fast neutrino flavor conversion (FFC). Our schematic treatment of FFCs assumes instantaneous flavor equilibration under the constraint of lepton-number conservation individually for each flavor. Systematically varying the spatial domain where FFCs are assumed to occur, we find that they facilitate SN explosions in low-mass (9-12 solar masses) progenitors that otherwise explode with longer time delays, whereas FFCs weaken the tendency to explode of higher-mass (around 20 solar masses) progenitors.
- Comments:
- 8 pages, 4 figures, slightly modified version, accepted by PRL
- Subjects:
- High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
- arXiv:
- 2305.11207 [pdf]