Transport coefficients in superfluid neutron stars
Abstract
We study the shear and bulk viscosity coefficients as well as the thermal conductivity as arising from the collisions among phonons in superfluid neutron stars. We use effective field theory techniques to extract the allowed phonon collisional processes, written as a function of the equation of state and the gap of the system. The shear viscosity due to phonon scattering is compared to calculations of that coming from electron collisions. We also comment on the possible consequences for r-mode damping in superfluid neutron stars. Moreover, we find that phonon collisions give the leading contribution to the bulk viscosities in the core of the neutron stars. We finally obtain a temperature-independent thermal conductivity from phonon collisions and compare it with the electron-muon thermal conductivity in superfluid neutron stars.
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@article{arxiv.1411.7622,
title = {Transport coefficients in superfluid neutron stars},
author = {Laura Tolos and Cristina Manuel and Sreemoyee Sarkar and Jaume Tarrus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.7622},
year = {2014}
}
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9 pages, 5 figures, contribution to the proceedings of XI Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, September 8-12, 2014, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia