Entanglement in collective neutrino oscillations
Baha Balantekin (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

Earlier theoretical work on neutrino propagation in dense media, in particular the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect describing phase changes in neutrino wave functions resulting from their interaction with the background particles, provided an explanation of the measured distortions of the solar neutrinos. A more complex effect takes place in the denser media inside supernovae and neutron-star mergers, where neutrinos interact not only with the background particles but also among themselves. After reviewing key roles neutrinos play in such environments, this many-neutrino problem and resulting collective neutrino oscillations will be discussed. Implications of correlations between neutrinos in this many-neutrino system for nucleosynthesis and terrestrial detection of supernova neutrinos will be explored.