Neutron matter at finite temperature
Nuclear Theory
2008-11-26 v1 Astrophysics
Other Condensed Matter
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
We calculate the neutron matter equation of state at finite temperature based on low-momentum two- and three-nucleon interactions. The free energy is obtained from a loop expansion around the Hartree-Fock energy, including contributions from normal and anomalous diagrams. We focus on densities below saturation density with temperatures T <= 10 MeV and compare our results to the model-independent virial equation of state and to variational calculations. Good agreement with the virial equation of state is found at low density. We provide simple estimates for the theoretical error, important for extrapolations to astrophysical conditions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0711.3613,
title = {Neutron matter at finite temperature},
author = {L. Tolos and B. Friman and A. Schwenk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.3613},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
15 pages, 6 figures