Oct 20 – 23, 2026
RIKEN
Asia/Tokyo timezone
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COLLECTIVE NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS IN NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS

Oct 20, 2026, 2:00 PM
25m
Headquarters Building 2F (RIKEN)

Headquarters Building 2F

RIKEN

2-1, Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Invited Presentation Theoretical nuclear physics for astrophysics Scientific Session

Speaker

Baha Balantekin (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Description

Collective oscillations of neutrinos represent emergent nonlinear flavor evolution phenomena instigated by neutrino-neutrino interactions in astrophysical environments with sufficiently high neutrino densities. These many-body systems exhibit interesting properties such as quantum entanglement. In this talk efforts to calculate evolution of the many-neutrino systems beyond the mean-field approximation, using both classical and quantum computing, will be discussed. Imprint of neutrinos on element formation in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers will be illustrated.

Category Theory

Author

Baha Balantekin (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

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