Speaker
Annelise Malkus
(North Carolina State University)
Description
We present a novel type of neutrino flavor tranformation behavior in the context of accretion disks above compact object mergers. These neutrino environments differ from supernovas, the sun and the early universe and are thus home to neutrino flavor transitions unseen elsewhere. We compute neutrino oscillation including self-interaction effects for merger disks with realistic energy and flux hierarchies for different neutrino flavors. We use a single energy model to explain the transitions.
Primary author
Annelise Malkus
(North Carolina State University)
Co-authors
Alexander Friedland
(Los Alamos National Lab)
Gail McLaughlin
(North Carolina State University)