Neutrino sparking and the neutron to strange stars conversion
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We address the production of strangelets inside neutron stars by means of high-energy neutrino interactions (sparking). Requiring that neutron stars remain as such along their lifetimes, we obtain a bound on the probability of a strangelet in the final state and compare it with existing laboratory limits. It turns out that this mechanism is not likely to drive a neutron strange stars conversion for realistic values of the minimum center-mass-energy necessary to produce the quark-gluon plasma, a necessary precondition for the formation of the strangelet.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9809385,
title = {Neutrino sparking and the neutron to strange stars conversion},
author = {J. E. Horvath and H. Vucetich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9809385},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
RevTex file, no figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. D