Composition of nuclear matter with light clusters and Bose-Einstein condensation of $\alpha$ particles
Nuclear Theory
2017-09-26 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Quantum Gases
Superconductivity
Abstract
The Bose-Einstein condensation of partciles in the multicomponent environment of dilute, warm nuclear matter is studied. We consider the cases of matter composed of light clusters with mass numbers and matter that in addition these clusters contains nuclei. We apply the quasiparticle gas model which treats clusters as bound states with infinite life-time and binding energies independent of temperature and density. We show that the particles can form a condensate at low temperature MeV in such matter in the first case. When the nucleus is added to the composition the cluster abundances are strongly modified at low temperatures, with an important implication that the condensation at these temperatures is suppressed.
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@article{arxiv.1705.02525,
title = {Composition of nuclear matter with light clusters and Bose-Einstein condensation of $\alpha$ particles},
author = {Xin-Hui Wu and Si-Bo Wang and Armen Sedrakian and Gerd Röpke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.02525},
year = {2017}
}
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15 pages, 8 figures