#Today I Read#
               Author: Lei Ma
             
             
             
             
               Summary: Just some key ideas of Flavor Oscillation Modes in Dense Neutrino Media, not a complete story.
             
             
                 
                 
                  Categories: 
                    { collective oscillations }
                    
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                  Tags: 
                    #collective oscillations
                    
                    #symmetries in neutrino oscillations
                    
                 
                 
                 
             
              References:
                
                   
                       - Flavor Oscillation Modes in Dense Neutrino Media
                      
                
             
             
           Method
Separate the modes of flavor isospins.
Results
Two Colliding Beams
- Plus mode (summation of d modes for the two beams) is unstable in IH; Minus mode is unstable in NH.
With Axial Distribution
- For some axial distribution of emission, axial part of spherical harmonic expansion of the modes shows that the equation of motions for the modes are decoupled. And the $\lvert m\rvert > 1$ modes do not depend on the number density of neutrinos and are the same.
- The $m=0$ mode, aka axial symmetric mode, is just like the plus mode in two colliding beams model, which means it’s unstable in IH.
- The $m=\pm 1$ modes, behaves like the minus mode in two colliding beams model, which means it is unstable in NH.
A More General Angular Distribution
- Expand the modes using spherical harmonics shows that the $l$, $m$ modes are decoupled and $l=0$ works like $m=0$ in previous case and l=1 works like $m=\pm 1$.
 
      
    
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