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Neutrinos decoupled from $\beta$-processes and supernova explosion

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2012-06-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Based on the gravitational collapse time-scale is larger than the weak interaction time-scale at core densities ρ>1011gr/cm3\rho > 10^{11} {gr}/ {cm}^{3}, we approximately use the β\beta-equilibrium condition and particle number conservations to calculate the number and energy densities of neutrino sphere in the process of gravitational core collapse towards the formation of a proto-neutron star. We find that at core densities ρdec>1012gr/cm3\rho_{dec} > 10^{12} {gr}/ {cm}^{3}, the β\beta-equilibrium condition cannot be satisfied consistently with charge, baryon and lepton number conservations, leading to the presence of excess neutrinos decoupling from the β\beta-equilibrium. These excess neutrinos interact with nucleons and electrons via the neutral current channel only and their diffusion time is about 10210^{-2} sec. The excess neutrino flux could play an important role in an Supernova explosion, provided the fraction of excess neutrinos over all neutrinos is at least one present.

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@article{arxiv.1206.0431,
  title  = {Neutrinos decoupled from $\beta$-processes and supernova explosion},
  author = {R. Mohammadi and Remo Ruffini and She-Sheng Xue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.0431},
  year   = {2012}
}

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11 pages, 5 figures

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