Gail McLaughlin

Senior Investigator

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Research Publications

Quantum Closures for Neutrino Moment Transport

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

2024.
Quantum maximum entropy closure for small flavor coherence

Julien Froustey, 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 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.
Neutrino flavor mixing with moments

McKenzie Myers, Theo Cooper, MacKenzie Warren, Jim Kneller, Gail McLaughlin, Sherwood Richers, Evan Grohs, Carla Frohlich.

2021.
Kilonovae across the nuclear physics landscape: The impact of nuclear physics uncertainties on r-process-powered emission

Jennifer Barnes, Y. L. Zhu, K. A. Lund, T. M. Sprouse, N. Vassh, G. C. McLaughlin, M.R. Mumpower, R. Surman.

2020.
Modeling Kilonova Light Curves: Dependence on Nuclear Inputs

Y. L. Zhu, K. Lund, J. Barnes, T. M. Sprouse, N. Vassh, G. C. McLaughlin, M. R. Mumpower, R. Surman.

2020.
Coproduction of Light and Heavy r-process Elements via Fission Deposition

Nicole Vassh, Matthew R. Mumpower, Gail C. McLaughlin, Trevor M. Sprouse, Rebecca Surman.

2019.
Neutrino Quantum Kinetics in Compact Objects

Sherwood A. Richers, Gail C. McLaughlin, James P. Kneller, Alexey Vlasenko.

2019.
FRIB and the GW170817 Kilonova

Ani Aprahamian, et al. (multiple N3AS authors).

2018.

Research Themes

Dark Matter, Neutrino Physics

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Gail McLaughlin

Gail McLaughlin

Quantum Closures for Neutrino Moment Transport

Quantum maximum entropy closure for small flavor coherence

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

Neutrino flavor mixing with moments

Kilonovae across the nuclear physics landscape: The impact of nuclear physics uncertainties on r-process-powered emission

Modeling Kilonova Light Curves: Dependence on Nuclear Inputs

Coproduction of Light and Heavy r-process Elements via Fission Deposition

Neutrino Quantum Kinetics in Compact Objects

FRIB and the GW170817 Kilonova

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