# Linear Analysis of Fast-Pairwise Collective Neutrino Oscillations in Core-Collapse Supernovae based on the Results of Boltzmann Simulations

## TL;DR

This study investigates the potential for fast-pairwise neutrino flavor conversions in core-collapse supernovae using realistic Boltzmann simulation data, finding no signs of conversion in the examined scenarios but exploring conditions for possible conversion.

## Contribution

First application of linear analysis to realistic supernova neutrino distributions from Boltzmann simulations to assess flavor conversion potential.

## Key findings

- No positive signs of neutrino flavor conversion in the studied model.
- Detailed analysis of conditions required for flavor conversion.
- Modified distributions suggest possible conversion under certain conditions.

## Abstract

Neutrinos are densely populated deep inside the core of massive stars after their gravitational collapse to produce supernova explosions and form compact stars such as neutron stars (NS) and black holes (BH). It has been considered that they may change their flavor identities through so-called fast-pairwise conversions induced by mutual forward scatterings. If that is really the case, the dynamics of supernova explosion will be influenced, since the conversion may occur near the neutrino sphere, from which neutrinos are effectively emitted. In this paper, we conduct a pilot study of such possibilities based on the results of fully self-consistent, realistic simulations of a core-collapse supernova explosion in two spatial dimensions under axisymmetry. As we solved the Boltzmann equations for neutrino transfer in the simulation not as a post-process but in real time, the angular distributions of neutrinos in momentum space for all points in the core at all times are available, a distinct feature of our simulations. We employ some of these distributions extracted at a few selected points and times from the numerical data and apply linear analysis to assess the possibility of the conversion. We focus on the vicinity of the neutrino sphere, where different species of neutrinos move in different directions and have different angular distributions as a result. This is a pilot study for a more thorough survey that will follow soon. We find no positive sign of conversion unfortunately at least for the spatial points and times we studied in this particular model. We hence investigate rather in detail the condition for the conversion by modifying the neutrino distributions rather arbitrarily by hand.