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Neutrino Mixing and Nucleosynthesis in Core-Collapse Supernovae

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

A simple description of core-collapse supernovae is given. Properties of the neutrino-driven wind, neutrino fluxes and luminosities, reaction rates, and the equilibrium electron fraction in supernova environments are discussed. Neutrino mixing and neutrino interactions that are relevant to core-collapse supernovae are briefly reviewed. The values of electron fraction under several evolution scenarios that may impact rapid neutron capture process (r-process) nucleosynthesis are calculated.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0411159,
  title  = {Neutrino Mixing and Nucleosynthesis in Core-Collapse Supernovae},
  author = {A. B. Balantekin and H. Yuksel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0411159},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, 4 figures