Essential Papers

Neutrino Flavor Transformation

• Duan 2010 “Collective Neutrino Oscillations”: This paper is too old to contain modern topics like the fast flavor instability, matter-neutrino resonance, and collisional instabilities, but the introduction of the basics (especially up to Section 2.2) is great.

• Chakraborty+ 2016: Great pedagogical approach to linear stability analysis with the FFI for simple systems.

• Richers+ 2021 “Particle-in-cell simulation of the neutrino fast flavor instability”: Most complete description of the particle-in-cell method for flavor transformation.

• Capozzi & Saviano 2022 “Neutrino Flavor Conversions in High-Density Astrophysical and Cosmological Environments”: Very high-level and brief overview of neutrinos in many aspects of astrophysics.

• Volpe 2023 “Neutrinos from dense: flavor mechanisms, theoretical approaches, observations, new directions”: Much lengthier review of neutrino flavor transformation with more concrete details.

• Patwardhan+ 2023 “Many-body collective neutrino oscillations: recent developments”: Many-body neutrino physics.

Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Mezzacappa 2023 “Toward Realistic Models of Core Collapse Supernovae: A Brief Review”

• Mueller 2020 “Hydrodynamics of core-collapse supernovae and their progenitors”

• Janka 2012 “Explosion Mechanisms of Core-Collapse Supernovae”

Neutron Star Mergers

• Radice 2020 “The Dynamics of Binary Neutron Star Mergers and GW170817”: Merger dynamics (simulator’s perspective)

• Metzger 2020 “Kilonovae”: Kilonova physics (theorist’s perspective)

Classic Papers

• Wu+ 1957 “Experimental Test of Parity Conservation in Beta Decay”: Discovery of neutrino parity violation experiment.

• Pontcorvo 1968 “NEUTRINO EXPERIMENTS AND THE PROBLEM OF CONSERVATION OF LEPTONIC CHARGE”: Proposal for neutrino flavor transformation and astrophysical implications.

• Lattimer & Schramm 1976 “BLACK-HOLE-NEUTRON-STAR COLLISIONS”: Theoretical proposal that merging neutron stars can be interesting.

• Fukuda+ 1998 “Evidence for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos” and Ahmad+ 2001 “Measurement of the Rate of nu_e + d -> p + p + e- Interactions Produced by B 8 Solar Neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory”: Experimental discovery of neutrino flavor transformation.

• Colgate & White 1960: Idea that neutrino heating can lead to core-collapse supernova explosions (though the microphysics is quite wrong)

• Bethe & Wilson 1985 “Revival of a stalled supernova shock by neutrino heating”: Idea that the shock stalls and is revived by neutrino heating.