Six-Dimensional Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae with Full Boltzmann Neutrino Transport

Hiroki Nagakura, Wakana Iwakami, Shun Furusawa, Hirotada Okawa, Akira Harada, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Shoichi Yamada, Hideo Matsufuru, Akira Imakura

Published 2017-02-06Version 1

This is the first-ever report of much awaited core-collase supernova simulations with solving the Boltzmann equations for neutrino transport, which actually amounts to a 6-dimensional (1 in time, 2 in space and 3 in momentum space) problem even under axial symmetry. This is also the first study to find a sign of successful explosion in a computation at this level of elaboration in neutrino transport. We also investigate the neutrino distributions in momentum space, which would not be accessible to other approximate methods employed so far. The off-diagonal component of the Eddington tensor for neutrinos derived in this letter is different from what are prescribed by hand in frequently-used approximations. The results will be useful to test and possibly improve these approximations casually used but not validated in the literature.