Neutrino Flavor Conversions in High-Density Astrophysical and Cosmological Environments
Despite being a well understood phenomenon in the context of current terrestrial experiments, neutrino flavor conversions in dense astrophysical environments probably represent one of the most challenging open problems in neutrino physics. Apart from being theoretically interesting, such a problem h...
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| description | Despite being a well understood phenomenon in the context of current terrestrial experiments, neutrino flavor conversions in dense astrophysical environments probably represent one of the most challenging open problems in neutrino physics. Apart from being theoretically interesting, such a problem has several phenomenological implications in cosmology and in astrophysics, including the primordial nucleosynthesis of light elements abundance and other cosmological observables, nucleosynthesis of heavy nuclei, and the explosion of massive stars. In this review, we briefly summarize the state of the art on this topic, focusing on three environments: early Universe, core-collapse supernovae, and compact binary mergers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b98368c9e14542ef948c4fac0b94bc592023-11-23T22:23:16ZengMDPI AGUniverse2218-19972022-02-01829410.3390/universe8020094Neutrino Flavor Conversions in High-Density Astrophysical and Cosmological EnvironmentsFrancesco Capozzi0Ninetta Saviano1Instituto de Física Corpuscular, Universidad de Valencia & CSIC, Edificio Institutos de Investigación, Calle Catedrático José Beltrán 2, 46980 Paterna, SpainScuola Superiore Meridionale, Università degli studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Largo San Marcellino 10, 80138 Napoli, ItalyDespite being a well understood phenomenon in the context of current terrestrial experiments, neutrino flavor conversions in dense astrophysical environments probably represent one of the most challenging open problems in neutrino physics. Apart from being theoretically interesting, such a problem has several phenomenological implications in cosmology and in astrophysics, including the primordial nucleosynthesis of light elements abundance and other cosmological observables, nucleosynthesis of heavy nuclei, and the explosion of massive stars. In this review, we briefly summarize the state of the art on this topic, focusing on three environments: early Universe, core-collapse supernovae, and compact binary mergers.https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/8/2/94astrophysical neutrinosneutrino oscillationssupernovaeneutron star mergersearly Universesterile neutrinos |
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| title | Neutrino Flavor Conversions in High-Density Astrophysical and Cosmological Environments |
| title_full | Neutrino Flavor Conversions in High-Density Astrophysical and Cosmological Environments |
| title_fullStr | Neutrino Flavor Conversions in High-Density Astrophysical and Cosmological Environments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Neutrino Flavor Conversions in High-Density Astrophysical and Cosmological Environments |
| title_short | Neutrino Flavor Conversions in High-Density Astrophysical and Cosmological Environments |
| title_sort | neutrino flavor conversions in high density astrophysical and cosmological environments |
| topic | astrophysical neutrinos neutrino oscillations supernovae neutron star mergers early Universe sterile neutrinos |
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