NEUTRINO-NUCLEUS INTERACTIONS IN CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE

Differential cross sections for charged-current and inelastic neutral-current neutrino-nucleus interactions have been computed. These are incorporated into a radiation hydrodynamics code, and a number of models have been evolved with the aim of determining the role of these rates in the evolution of the collapsing core and in the supernova mechanism. We focus, in particular, on the effect of these rates on the infall epoch, the prompt shock propagation phase, and the delayed-shock phase in the evolution of the core.