Flavor stability analysis of supernova neutrino fluxes compared with simulations

Abstract

We apply a linearized stability analysis to simplified models of accretion-phase neutrino fluxes streaming from a supernova. We compare the results with recent numerical studies and find excellent agreement. This provides confidence that a linearized stability analysis can be further applied to more realistic models.

Comments: Contribution to the Proceedings of HANSE 2011 workshop, 4 pages, 2 figures