- Accepted Paper
Quasisteady flavor configuration of multienergy neutrino ensembles
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 26 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/3w9f-wyvl
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 26 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/3w9f-wyvl
Neutrino flavor conversion profoundly impacts the explosion mechanism and multi-messenger emissions of core-collapse supernovae. Yet, state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of neutrino-dense astrophysical environments cannot account for neutrino quantum kinetics, necessitating subgrid schemes to model the impact of neutrino self-interaction on the quasi-steady-state flavor configuration. We present semi-analytical approximations for the outcomes of both slow and fast flavor conversions in quasi-homogeneous systems with periodic boundary conditions. Independent of the mass ordering, our ansatz demonstrates excellent agreement with multi-angle and multi-energy solutions of the neutrino kinetic equations across a wide range of representative (anti)neutrino distributions.
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