Prospects for obtaining an r-process from Gamma Ray Burst Disk Winds

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2004-07-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0407555v1

Nucl.Phys. A758 (2005) 189-196

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, submitted to Nucl. Phys. A as part of the Nuclei in Cosmos 8 proceedings

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2005.05.036

We discuss the possibility that r-process nucleosynthesis may occur in the winds from gamma ray burst accretion disks. This can happen if the temperature of the disk is sufficiently high that electron antineutrinos are trapped as well as neutrinos. This implies accretion disks with greater than a solar mass per second accretion rate, although lower accretion rates with higher black hole spin parameters may provide viable environments as well. Additionally, the outflow from the disk must either have relatively low entropy, e.g. around s = 10, or the initial acceleration of the wind must be slow enough that it is neutrino and antineutrino capture as opposed to electron and positron capture that sets the electron fraction.

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