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Weak Response of Nuclear Matter at low Momentum transfer

Nuclear Theory 2014-11-18 v1

Abstract

A quantitative understanding of the weak nuclear response is a prerequisite for the computer simulations of astrophysical phenomena like supernov\ae\ae explosions and neutron star cooling. In order to reduce the systematic uncertainties associated with the simulations, a consistent framework, able to take into account dynamical correlation effects, is needed to compute neutrino-nucleon and neutrino-nucleus reaction rates. In this paper we describe the many-body theory of the weak nuclear response at low energy regime. We show how to include both short and long correlations effects in a consistent fashion.

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@article{arxiv.0902.2933,
  title  = {Weak Response of Nuclear Matter at low Momentum transfer},
  author = {Nicola Farina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.2933},
  year   = {2014}
}