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Fast Flavor Transformations
Sherwood Richers, Manibrata Sen
The neutrino fast flavor instability (FFI) can change neutrino flavor on time scales of nanoseconds and length scales of centimeters. It is expected to be ubiquitous in core-collap…
The Fast Flavor Instability in Hypermassive Neutron Star Disk Outflows
Rodrigo Fernández, Sherwood Richers, Nicole Mulyk +1
We examine the effect of neutrino flavor transformation by the fast flavor instability (FFI) on long-term mass ejection from accretion disks formed after neutron star mergers. Neut…
Neutrino Fast Flavor Instability in three dimensions for a Neutron Star Merger
Evan Grohs, Sherwood Richers, Sean M. Couch +3
The flavor evolution of neutrinos in core collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers is a critically important unsolved problem in astrophysics. Following the electron flavor evo…
Evaluating Approximate Flavor Instability Metrics in Neutron Star Mergers
Sherwood Richers
Neutrinos can rapidly change flavor in the inner dense regions of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers due to the neutrino fast flavor instability. If the amount of fl…
Code Comparison for Fast Flavor Instability Simulation
Sherwood Richers, Huaiyu Duan, Meng-Ru Wu +5
The fast flavor instability (FFI) is expected to be ubiquitous in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. It rapidly shuffles neutrino flavor in a way that could impact…