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Singlet pairing gaps of neutrons and protons in hyperonic neutron stars

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-06-22 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The 1S0^{1}S_{0} nucleonic superfluids are investigated within the relativistic mean-field model and Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory in hyperonic neutron stars. The 1S0^{1}S_{0} pairing gaps of neutrons and protons are calculated based on the Reid soft-core interaction as the nucleon-nucleon interaction. We have studied particularly the influence of hyperons degrees of freedom on the 1S0^{1}S_{0} nucleonic pairing gap in neutron star matter. It is found that the appearance of hyperons has little impact on baryonic density range and size for the 1S0^{1}S_{0} neutronic pairing gap, the 1S0^{1}S_{0} protonic pairing gap also decreases slightly in this region ρB=0.00.393\rho_B=0.0-0.393 fm3^{-3}. However, if baryonic density becomes greater than 0.393 fm3{^{-3}}, the 1S0^{1}S_{0} protonic pairing gap obviously increases. In addition, the protonic superfluid range is obviously enlarged due to the presence of hyperons. In our results, the hyperons change the 1S0^{1}S_{0} protonic pairing gap which must change the cooling properties of neutron stars.

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@article{arxiv.1408.2891,
  title  = {Singlet pairing gaps of neutrons and protons in hyperonic neutron stars},
  author = {Yan Xu and Cheng-Zhi Liu and Cun-Bo Fan and Xing-Wei Han and Xiao-Jun Zhang and Ming-Feng Zhu and Hong-Yan Wang and Guang-Zhou Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2891},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures