Coupling Neutrino Oscillations and Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae

Understand

At the present time even the most sophisticated, multi-dimensional simulations of core-collapse supernovae do not (self-consistently) include neutrino flavor transformation.

• This physics is missing despite the importance of neutrinos in the core-collapse explosion paradigm.
• Because of this dependence, any flavor transformation that occurs in the region between the proto-neutron star and the shock could result in major effects upon the dynamics of the explosion.
• We present the first hydrodynamic core-collapse supernova simulation which simultaneously includes flavor transformation of the free-streaming neutrinos in the neutrino transport.