Transport of neutrinos in hot neutron star matter
Nov, 197836 pages
Published in:
- Astrophys.J. 230 (1979) 859-869
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Report number:
- UCSB-TH-47-1978
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Abstract: (ADS)
In the present paper, the neutrino opacity of neutron stars from the charged-current and the neutral-current processes is calculated. For temperatures of a few MeV, the mean free path of even zero-energy neutrinos is found to be smaller than the radius of a neutron star. The mean opacity appropriate to the diffusion limit of the Boltzmann equation is calculated, and the characteristic cooling time for a hot (10 MeV) neutron star is found to be about 1 min.- ASTROPHYSICS
- N: MATTER
- NEUTRINO NUCLEON: INTERACTION
- INTERACTION: NEUTRINO NUCLEON
- NEUTRINO N: ELASTIC SCATTERING
- ELASTIC SCATTERING: NEUTRINO N
- CHARGED CURRENT
- NEUTRAL CURRENT
- N: FINAL STATE
- FINAL STATE: N
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