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In magnetic fields stronger than B_Q = 4.4 X 10^13 Gauss, an electron's Landau excitation energy exceeds its rest energy. I review the physics of this strange regime and some of its implications for the crusts and magneto- spheres of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert C. Duncan

We calculate asymmetric neutrino absorption and scattering cross sections on hot and dense magnetized neutron-star matter including hyperons in fully relativistic mean field theory. The absorption/scattering cross sections are…

We derive the charged current absorption rate of electron and anti-electron neutrinos in dense matter using a fully relativistic approach valid at arbitrary matter degeneracy. We include mean field energy shifts due to nuclear interactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-03 Luke F. Roberts , Sanjay Reddy

We study the charged and neutral current weak interaction rates relevant for the determination of neutrino opacities in dense matter found in supernovae and neutron stars. We establish an efficient formalism for calculating differential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Sanjay Reddy , Madappa Prakash , James M Lattimer

At the high temperatures present inside recently formed neutron stars ($T\gtrsim 5\times 10^{8}\, \text{K}$), the particles in their cores are in the "strong-coupling" regime, in which collisional forces make them behave as a single, stably…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-26 Nicolás A. Moraga , Francisco Castillo , Andreas Reisenegger , Juan A. Valdivia , Mikhail E. Gusakov

We discuss various neutrino-nucleus interactions in connection with the supernova r-process nucleosynthesis, which possibly occurs in the neutrino-driven wind of a young neutron star. These interactions include absorptions of electron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Y. -Z. Qian

The active-sterile neutrino conversion is studied for neutrino propagating in the axial potential generated by magnetised electron plasma in the supernova medium. We consider the effect of random magnetic field $B_{rms}$ on the average…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 Sarira Sahu , Vishnu M. Bannur

The inversion of temperature at the solar corona is hard to understand from classical physics, and the coronal heating mechanism remains unclear. The heating in the quiet region seems contradicting with the thermodynamics and is a keen…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-26 Kenzo Ishikawa , Yutaka Tobita

Context. The influence of magnetic fields on stellar core collapse and explosion is not well explored. It depends on the possibility to amplify the pre-collapse fields. Without rotation this can happen by compression, convection, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Martin Obergaulinger , Hans-Thomas Janka

We examine to what extent the inferred surface temperature of magnetars in quiescence can constrain the presence of a superfluid in the neutron star core and the role of magnetic field decay in the core. By performing detailed simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 Wynn C. G. Ho , Kostas Glampedakis , Nils Andersson

The neutrino driven wind during a core collapse supernova is an attractive site for r-process nucleosynthesis. The electron fraction $Y_e$ in the wind depends on observable neutrino energies and luminosities. The mean antineutrino energy is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. J. Horowitz

We calculate neutrino processes involving two nucleons at subnuclear densities using chiral effective field theory. Shorter-range noncentral forces reduce the neutrino rates significantly compared with the one-pion exchange approximation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 S. Bacca , K. Hally , C. J. Pethick , A. Schwenk

The behavior of the neutrino flux in vortex and twisting magnetic fields is considered within the left-right symmetric model. By way of illustration of the magnetic fields we discuss the magnetic fields of the coupled sunspots (CS's) which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-18 O. M. Boyarkin , I. O. Boyarkina

An extensive study of the effects of correlations on both charged and neutral current weak interaction rates in dense matter is performed. Both strong and electromagnetic correlations are considered.The propagation of particle-hole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Sanjay Reddy , Madappa Prakash , James M. Lattimer , Jose A. Pons

The magnetic field is believed to play an important role in at least some core-collapse supernovae if its magnitude reaches $10^{15}\,\rm{G}$, which is a typical value for a magnetar. In the presence of fast rotation, such a strong magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-17 M. Bugli , J. Guilet , M. Obergaulinger , P. Cerdá-Durán , M. Á. Aloy

We calculate parity nonconserving observables in the processes where a neutron is captured on a proton at the threshold energy radiating a photon. Various potential models such as Paris, Bonn and Argonne $v18$ are used for the strong…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 C. H. Hyun , S. J. Lee , J. Haidenbauer , S. W. Hong

Neutrino-photon processes, forbidden in vacuum, can take place in the presence of a thermal medium and/or an external electro-magnetic field, mediated by the corresponding charged leptons (real or virtual). Such interactions affect the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sushan Konar , Subinoy Das

Recent observations of greatly amplified magnetic fields ($\delta B/B\sim 100$) around supernova shocks are consistent with the predictions of the non-linear theory of particle acceleration (NLT), if the field is generated upstream of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Damiano Caprioli , Pasquale Blasi , Elena Amato , Mario Vietri

The Vlasov equation is used to determine the dispersion relation for the eigenmodes of magnetized nuclear and neutral stellar matter, taking into account the anomalous magnetic moment of nucleons. The formalism is applied to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-26 Jianjun Fang , Helena Pais , Sagar Pratapsi , Sidney Avancini , Jing Li , Constança Providência

We investigate the rates of production and thermalization of $\nu_\mu$ and $\nu_\tau$ neutrinos at temperatures and densities relevant to core-collapse supernovae and protoneutron stars. Included are contributions from electron scattering,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Todd A. Thompson , Adam Burrows , J. E. Horvath