Luke F. Roberts, Gang Shen, Vincenzo Cirigliano, Jose A. Pons, Sanjay Reddy, Stan E. Woosley
We model neutrino emission from a newly born neutron star subsequent to a
supernova explosion to study its sensitivity to the equation of state, neutrino
opacities, and convective instabilities at high baryon density. We find the
time period and spatial extent over which convection operates is sensitive to
the behavior of the nuclear symmetry energy at and above nuclear density. When
convection ends within the proto-neutron star, there is a break in the
predicted neutrino emission that may be clearly observable.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0335
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