Highlights
![Three-dimensional contours of quantum coherence in a neutrino moment simulation. The simulation starts with random initial conditions and develops structure in less than a nanosecond.](/-/media/np/images/highlights/2024/Neutrino-Flavor-NCSU.jpg?h=644&w=644&la=en&hash=566EBDB5E5578D73BEA54E20ACA36621FDA12FBD967B5E3ECEFAE04CAD34DD92)
What Flavor Is that Neutrino? Adding Flavor Helps to Track Neutrino Movement in Astrophysical Systems
Scientists use state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulation codes for astrophysics to solve the dynamical equations for neutrino flavor.
![Top: protons striking a nucleus deflect from their original path depending on velocity, location of impact, and force from the protons inside the nucleus. Bottom: elastic proton scattering cross sections from oxygen-16 at different orders of magnitude.](/-/media/np/images/highlights/2024/AB-Initio.png?h=601&w=1345&la=en&hash=880219EF62963C79E3FBC3FC23EA19184E2363E20439B0E132F2D4974067F37F)
Ab Initio Methods Help Scientists Make Sense of Complex Particle Collisions
Research finds ab initio effective field theories are useful for calculating how nucleons scatter from collisions of atomic nuclei.
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