Collective Neutrino Flavor Instability Requires a Crossing
arXiv:2110.00192 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.081102
Abstract
Neutrinos in supernovae, neutron stars, and in the early Universe may change flavor collectively and unstably, due to neutrino-neutrino forward-scattering. We prove that for collective instability to occur, the difference of momentum distributions of two flavors must change sign, i.e., there is a zero crossing. This necessary criterion, which unifies slow and fast instabilities, is valid for Hamiltonian flavor-evolution of ultra-relativistic Standard Model neutrino occupation matrices, including damping due to collisions in the relaxation approximation. It provides a simple but rigorous condition for collective flavor transformations that are believed to be important for stellar dynamics, nucleosynthesis, and neutrino phenomenology.
4 pages; v2: published version
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