Francois Foucart

Senior Investigator

About University of New Hampshire

PFC* Member who joined at the start of the Physics Frontier Center

Research Publications

Advection Algorithms for Quantum Neutrino Moment Transport

Evan Grohs, Sherwood Richers, Julien Froustey, Francois Foucart, James P. Kneller, Gail C. McLaughlin.

2025.
Influence of neutrino-electron scattering and neutrino-pair annihilation on hypermassive neutron star

Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong, Francois Foucart, Harry Ho-Yin Ng, Arthur Offermans, Matthew D. Duez, Nishad Muhammed, Pavan Chawhan.

2024.
Quantum Closures for Neutrino Moment Transport

James P. Kneller, Julien Froustey, Evan B. Grohs, Francois Foucart, Gail C. McLaughlin, Sherwood Richers.

2024.
Asymptotic-state prediction for fast flavor transformation in neutron star mergers

Sherwood Richers, Julien Froustey, Somdutta Ghosh, Francois Foucart, Javier Gomez.

2024.
Robustness of neutron star merger simulations to changes in neutrino transport and neutrino-matter interactions

Francois Foucart, Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong, Matthew D. Duez, Lawrence E. Kidder, et. al.

2024.
Three-flavor, Full Momentum Space Neutrino Spin Oscillations in Neutron Star Mergers

Henry Purcell, Sherwood Richers, Amol V. Patwardhan, Francois Foucart.

2024.
High angular momentum hot differentially rotating equilibrium star evolutions in conformally flat spacetime

Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong, Nishad Muhammed, Pavan Chawhan, Matthew D. Duez, Francois Foucart, et. al.

2024.
Neutrino flavor transformation with moments: application to fast flavor instabilities in neutron star mergers

Julien Froustey, Sherwood Richers, Evan Grohs, Samuel D. Flynn, Francois Foucart, James P. Kneller, Gail C. McLaughlin.

2024.
Neutrino flavor transformation with moments: application to fast flavor instabilities in neutron star mergers

Julien Froustey, Sherwood Richers, Evan Grohs, Samuel D. Flynn, Francois Foucart, James P. Kneller, Gail C. McLaughlin.

2024.
Neutrino fast flavor oscillations with moments: linear stability analysis and application to neutron star mergers

Julien Froustey, Sherwood Richers, Evan Grohs, Samuel Flynn, Francois Foucart, James P. Kneller, Gail C. McLaughlin.

2023.
Two-Moment Neutrino Flavor Transformation with applications to the Fast Flavor Instability in Neutron Star Mergers

Evan Grohs, Sherwood Richers, Sean M. Couch, Francois Foucart, Julien Froustey, Jim Kneller, Gail McLaughlin.

2023.
Neutrino fast flavor instability in three dimensions for a neutron star merger

Evan Grohs, Sherwood Richers, Sean M. Couch, Francois Foucart, James P. Kneller, G. C. McLaughlin.

2022.
Estimating outflow masses and velocities in merger simulations: impact of r-process heating and neutrino cooling

Francois Foucart, Philipp Moesta, Teresita Ramirez, Alex James Wright, Siva Darbha, Daniel Kasen.

2021.
The relative contribution to heavy metals production from binary neutron star mergers and neutron star-black hole mergers

Hsin-Yu Chen, Salvatore Vitale, Francois Foucart.

2021.
Implementation of Monte-Carlo transport in the general relativistic SpEC code

Francois Foucart, Matthew D. Duez, Francois Hebert, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel.

2021.
Electromagnetic Signatures from the Tidal Tail of a Black Hole - Neutron Star Merger

Siva Darbha, Daniel Kasen, Francois Foucart, Daniel J. Price.

2021.
High-accuracy waveforms for black hole-neutron star systems with spinning black holes

Francois Foucart, Alexander Chernoglazov, Michael Boyle, Tanja Hinderer, Max Miller, Jordan Moxon, Mark A. Scheel, Nils Deppe, Matthew D. Duez, et al.

2020.

Research Themes

Astrophysical Simulations

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Francois Foucart

Francois Foucart

Advection Algorithms for Quantum Neutrino Moment Transport

Influence of neutrino-electron scattering and neutrino-pair annihilation on hypermassive neutron star

Quantum Closures for Neutrino Moment Transport

Asymptotic-state prediction for fast flavor transformation in neutron star mergers

Robustness of neutron star merger simulations to changes in neutrino transport and neutrino-matter interactions

Three-flavor, Full Momentum Space Neutrino Spin Oscillations in Neutron Star Mergers

High angular momentum hot differentially rotating equilibrium star evolutions in conformally flat spacetime

Neutrino flavor transformation with moments: application to fast flavor instabilities in neutron star mergers

Neutrino flavor transformation with moments: application to fast flavor instabilities in neutron star mergers

Neutrino fast flavor oscillations with moments: linear stability analysis and application to neutron star mergers

Two-Moment Neutrino Flavor Transformation with applications to the Fast Flavor Instability in Neutron Star Mergers

Neutrino fast flavor instability in three dimensions for a neutron star merger

Estimating outflow masses and velocities in merger simulations: impact of r-process heating and neutrino cooling

The relative contribution to heavy metals production from binary neutron star mergers and neutron star-black hole mergers

Implementation of Monte-Carlo transport in the general relativistic SpEC code

Electromagnetic Signatures from the Tidal Tail of a Black Hole - Neutron Star Merger

High-accuracy waveforms for black hole-neutron star systems with spinning black holes

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