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Bulk viscosity transport coefficients in neutron star mergers

Nuclear Theory 2023-12-18 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We compute first and second-order bulk-viscous transport properties due to weak-interaction processes in npenpe matter in the neutrino transparent regime. The transport coefficients characterize the out-of-beta-equilibrium pressure corrections, which depend on the weak-interaction rates and the equation of state. We calculate these coefficients for realistic equations of state and show they are sensitive to changes in the nuclear symmetry energy JJ and its slope LL.

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@article{arxiv.2312.09364,
  title  = {Bulk viscosity transport coefficients in neutron star mergers},
  author = {Yumu Yang and Mauricio Hippert and Enrico Speranza and Jorge Noronha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.09364},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to the Quark Matter 2023 conference proceedings