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Neutrino emissivity of anisotropic neutron superfluids

Nuclear Theory 2013-02-12 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We examine the influence of the anisotropy of the superfluid energy gap and residual Fermi-liquid interactions in the triplet-correlated neutron liquid onto neutrino energy losses through neutral weak currents. The neutrino-pair emission caused by the pair breaking and formation processes and by the spin-wave decays is considered for the case of the 3P2^{3}P_{2} pairing in the state with mj=0m_{j}=0. The simple analytical formulae are obtained. A comparison with the previous results of the average-angle approach shows that the gap anisotropy leads to quenching of the neutrino emissivity caused by the pair recombination processes on about 15% and to substantial suppression of the spin-wave decays. Residual particle-hole interactions increase the energy losses in both the channels on about 5%.

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@article{arxiv.1301.5439,
  title  = {Neutrino emissivity of anisotropic neutron superfluids},
  author = {L. B. Leinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.5439},
  year   = {2013}
}

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22 pages, 6 figures