Expected impact from weak reactions with light nuclei in core-collapse supernova simulations
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2016-03-16 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We study the role of light nuclear clusters in simulations of core-collapse supernovae. Expressions for the reaction rates are developed for a large selection of charged current absorption and scattering processes with light clusters. Medium modifications are taken into account at the mean-field level. We explore the possible impact on the supernova dynamics and the neutrino signal during the mass accretion phase prior to the possible explosion onset as well as during the subsequent protoneutron star deleptnoization after the explosion onset has been launched.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1512.00193,
title = {Expected impact from weak reactions with light nuclei in core-collapse supernova simulations},
author = {T. Fischer and G. Martínez-Pinedo and M. Hempel and L. Huther and G. Röpke and S. Typel and A. Lohs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.00193},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the OMEG 2015 conference proceedings, appears in EPJ WoC proceedings