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Dispersion Relations of Collective Flavor Excitations in Dense Neutrino Media

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Anson Kost, Huaiyu Duan (UNM)

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 23 Mar 2026

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The authors' main claim In a neutrino gas with one or more zero crossings in the distribution of the difference of the (neutrino) lepton numbers (DLNs), the least damped resonant modes and the (originally) metastable modes at certain wave numbers can suffer from inverse Landau damping and thus become unstable.

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CitationAnson Kost, Huaiyu Duan (UNM). "Dispersion Relations of Collective Flavor Excitations in Dense Neutrino Media." arXiv:2603.22246 (2026). https://pith.science/paper/UHJDAIH5
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We apply the Landau damping theory to collective flavor excitations in dense neutrino media. We demonstrate explicitly that the (meta-)stable modes of the collective flavor excitations in a physical dense neutrino gas are indeed weakly damped. We show that there should in general exist infinitely many collective flavor excitation modes most of which are damped. In a neutrino gas with one or more zero crossings in the distribution of the difference of the (neutrino) lepton numbers (DLNs), the least damped resonant modes and the (originally) metastable modes at certain wave numbers can suffer from inverse Landau damping and thus become unstable. We also introduce the concept of convoluted DLN distributions which can be used to understand the physical origin of the slow and fast flavor instabilities in dense neutrino media in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers.

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s0 We apply the Landau damping theory to collective flavor excitations in dense neutrino media. method 0.85 0.93 0.05 asserted 0.89
s1 We demonstrate explicitly that the (meta-)stable modes of the collective flavor excitations in a physical dense neutrino gas are indeed weakly damped. result 0.98 0.94 0.33 asserted 1.00
s2 We show that there should in general exist infinitely many collective flavor excitation modes most of which are damped. result 1.00 0.90 0.24 asserted 0.95
s3 In a neutrino gas with one or more zero crossings in the distribution of the difference of the (neutrino) lepton numbers (DLNs), the least damped resonant modes and the (originally) metastable modes at certain wave numbers can suffer from inverse Landau damping and thus become unstable. result 1.00 0.78 0.20 hedged possibility 0.63
s4 We also introduce the concept of convoluted DLN distributions which can be used to understand the physical origin of the slow and fast flavor instabilities in dense neutrino media in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. contribution 0.95 0.88 0.12 asserted 0.95

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We apply the Landau damping theory to collective flavor excitations in dense neutrino media. We demonstrate explicitly that the (meta)stable modes of the collective flavor excitations in a physical dense neutrino gas are indeed weakly damped. We show that, in a neutrino medium with a continuous energy distribution, there can exist infinitely many dispersion relation branches of collective flavor excitations that extend to large wave numbers. In a neutrino gas with one or more zero crossings in the distribution of the difference of the (neutrino) lepton numbers (DLNs), the least damped resonant branches and the metastable branches can suffer from inverse Landau damping at certain wave numbers and thus become unstable. We also introduce the concept of convolved DLN distributions, which can be used to understand the physical origin of the slow and fast flavor instabilities in dense neutrino media in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers.

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  • These effects are of significant interest due to their potential impact on astrophysical explosions such as core-collapse supernovae and binary neutron star mergers, and have been under active investigation in recent years; see, e.g., [ref] .

    Collective neutrino-antineutrino pair oscillations · Introduction · 0.83

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  • This phenomenon is particularly interesting in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers, where the extremely dense neutrino media can experience flavor oscillations collectively (see, e.g., [ref] for some reviews).

    Collective Neutrino Oscillations · Introduction · 0.99

  • This phenomenon is particularly interesting in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers, where the extremely dense neutrino media can experience flavor oscillations collectively (see, e.g., [ref] for some reviews).

    Collective neutrino flavor conversion: Recent developments · Introduction · 0.99

  • This phenomenon is particularly interesting in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers, where the extremely dense neutrino media can experience flavor oscillations collectively (see, e.g., [ref] for some reviews).

    New Developments in Flavor Evolution of a Dense Neutrino Gas · Introduction · 0.99

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