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Sherwood Richers

2017, NSFD Astronomy
Fellow
Sherwood Richers

About

Sherwood was a N3AS Fellow from 2017-2020, spending the first two years of his appointment at North Carolina State University and the third at UC Berkeley. He continued at Berkeley and in N3AS as an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellow for two additional years. He is currently Assistant Professor in theoretical astrophysics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee.

Sherwood’s research is focused on numerical methods of neutrino transport and neutrino flavor transformation in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers.

Research Publications

Neutrino flavor instabilities in neutron star mergers with moment transport: Slow, fast, and collisional modes

Julien Froustey, Francois Foucart, Christian Hall, James P. Kneller, Debraj Kundu, Zidu Lin, Gail C. McLaughlin, Sherwood Richers .
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Neutrino Flavor Transformation in Neutron Star Mergers

Yi Qiu, David Radice, Sherwood Richers, Maitraya Bhattacharyya .
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Advection Algorithms for Quantum Neutrino Moment Transport

Evan Grohs, Sherwood Richers, Julien Froustey, Francois Foucart, James P. Kneller, Gail C. McLaughlin .
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Quantum Closures for Neutrino Moment Transport

James P. Kneller, Julien Froustey, Evan B. Grohs, Francois Foucart, Gail C. McLaughlin, Sherwood Richers .
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Asymptotic-state prediction for fast flavor transformation in neutron star mergers

Sherwood Richers, Julien Froustey, Somdutta Ghosh, Francois Foucart, Javier Gomez .
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Three-flavor, Full Momentum Space Neutrino Spin Oscillations in Neutron Star Mergers

Henry Purcell, Sherwood Richers, Amol V. Patwardhan, Francois Foucart .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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Neutrino flavor mixing with moments

McKenzie Myers, Theo Cooper, MacKenzie Warren, Jim Kneller, Gail McLaughlin, Sherwood Richers, Evan Grohs, Carla Frohlich .
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Neutrino Fast Flavor Instability in Three Dimensions

Sherwood Richers, Donald Willcox, Nicole Ford .
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Particle-in-cell Simulation of the Neutrino Fast Flavor Instability

Sherwood Richers, Don E. Willcox, Nicole M. Ford, Andrew Myers .
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Rank-3 Moment Closures in General Relativistic Neutrino Transport

Sherwood Richers .
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Neutrino Quantum Kinetics in Compact Objects

Sherwood A. Richers, Gail C. McLaughlin, James P. Kneller, Alexey Vlasenko .
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Comparing Treatments of Weak Reactions with Nuclei in Simulations of Core-collapse Supernovae

Shun Furusawa, Hajime Togashi, Sherwood Richers, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Shoichi Yamada .
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FRIB and the GW170817 Kilonova

Ani Aprahamian, et al .
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A Detailed Comparison of Multidimensional Boltzmann Neutrino Transport Methods in Core-Collapse Supernovae

Sherwood Richers, Hiroki Nagakura, Christian D. Ott, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Shoichi Yamada .
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Research Themes
Astrophysical Simulations, Neutrino Physics