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Neutrino quantum kinetics in compact objects

Sherwood A. Richers*, Gail C. McLaughlin, James P. Kneller, and Alexey Vlasenko

  • North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA

  • *sricher@ncsu.edu
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Phys. Rev. D 99, 123014 – Published 18 June, 2019Erratum Phys. Rev. D 109, 129902 (2024)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.123014

Abstract

Neutrinos play a critical role of transporting energy and changing the lepton density within corecollapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. The quantum kinetic equations (QKEs) combine the effects of neutrino-matter interactions treated in classical Boltzmann transport with the neutrino flavor-changing effects treated in neutrino oscillation calculations. We present a method for extending existing neutrino interaction rates to full QKE source terms for use in numerical calculations. We demonstrate the effects of absorption and emission by nucleons and nuclei, electron scattering, electron-positron pair annihilation, nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung, neutrino-neutrino scattering. For the first time, we include all these collision terms self-consistently in a simulation of the full isotropic QKEs in conditions relevant to core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. For our choice of parameters, the long-term evolution of the neutrino distribution function proceeds similarly with and without the oscillation term, though with measurable differences. We demonstrate that electron scattering, nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung processes, and four-neutrino processes dominate flavor decoherence in the protoneutron star (PNS), absorption dominates near the shock, and all of the considered processes except elastic nucleon scattering and neutrino-neutrino processes are relevant in the decoupling region. Finally, we propose an effective decoherence opacity that at most energies predicts decoherence rates to within a factor of 10 in our model PNS and within 20% outside of the PNS.

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Erratum: Neutrino quantum kinetics in compact objects [Phys. Rev. D 99, 123014 (2019)]

Sherwood A. Richers, Gail C. McLaughlin, James P. Kneller, and Alexey Vlasenko
Phys. Rev. D 109, 129902 (2024)

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