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Fast Neutrino Flavor Conversions Can Help and Hinder Neutrino-Driven Explosions

Fast Neutrino Flavor Conversions Can Help and Hinder Neutrino-Driven Explosions

We present the first simulations of core-collapse supernovae in axial symmetry with feedback from fast neutrino flavor conversion (FFC). Our schematic treatment of FFCs assumes instantaneous flavor equilibration under the constraint of lepton-number conservation individually for each flavor. Systematically varying the spatial domain where FFCs are assumed to occur, we …