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Non-Standard Neutrino Self-Interactions Can Cause Neutrino Flavor Equipartition Inside the Supernova Core

@inproceedings{Abbar2022NonStandardNS,
title={Non-Standard Neutrino Self-Interactions Can Cause Neutrino Flavor Equipartition Inside the Supernova Core},
year={2022}
}
We show that non-standard neutrino self-interactions can lead to total ﬂavor equipartition in a dense neutrino gas, such as those expected in core-collapse supernovae. In this ﬁrst investigation of this phenomenon in the multi-angle scenario, we demonstrate that such a ﬂavor equipartition can occur on very short scales, and therefore very deep inside the newly formed proto-neutron star, with a possible signiﬁcant impact on the physics of core-collapse supernovae. Our ﬁndings imply that future…

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