Impact of Neutrino Flavour Conversion on the Diffuse Neutrino Background from Neutrino-dominated Accretion Flows

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Neutrino-dominated accretion flows (NDAFs) are believed to form during the fallback accretion phase of some core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). Such systems produce copious neutrino emission, whose cumulative contribution over cosmic history forms the diffuse NDAF neutrino background (DNNB). As neutrinos propagate from the source to Earth, flavour conversion can significantly modify the observed neutrino spectra and consequently the detectability of the DNNB. In this work, based on fallback CCSN simulations, we investigate the effects of progenitor mass, metallicity, and initial explosion energy on neutrino emission from NDAFs. We calculate the heavy-lepton neutrino (νx) spectra from NDAFs and incorporate them into DNNB predictions. We find that the unoscillated νx spectra are more than an order of magnitude lower than those of electron antineutrinos $\bar{\nu }_e$. Using the latest neutrino oscillation parameters reported by the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), we evaluate the impact of flavour conversion on the DNNB and derive the corresponding spectra for both the normal and inverted mass orderings. We further estimate the expected event numbers in JUNO and Hyper-Kamiokande. We find that the predicted DNNB signal is strongly dependent on the neutrino mass ordering. While the DNNB may be detectable in the normal ordering with next-generation neutrino detectors, the signal is significantly suppressed in the inverted ordering, making detection considerably more challenging.
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Authors Yun-Feng Wei, Tong Liu
Journal monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Year 2026
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10.1093/mnras/stag1551
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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1551
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