Wednesday, January 30, 2013

1301.7042 (G. Wendell Misch et al.)

Neutrino Pair Emission from Hot Nuclei During Stellar Collapse    [PDF]

G. Wendell Misch, B. Alex Brown, George M. Fuller
We present shell-model calculations showing that residual interaction-induced configuration mixing enhances the rate of neutral current de-excitation of thermally excited nuclei into neutrino-antineutrino pairs. Though our calculations reinforce the conclusions of previous studies that this process is the dominant source of neutrino pairs near the onset of neutrino trapping during stellar collapse, our shell-model result has the effect of increasing the energy of these pairs, possibly altering their role in entropy transport in supernovae.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.7042

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