Exploring the QCD phase transition in core collapse supernova simulations in spherical symmetry

Details Exploring the QCD phase transition in core collapse supernova simulations in spherical symmetry Exploring the QCD phase transition in core collapse supernova simulations in spherical symmetry

2010-05-25

arxiv.org/abs/1005.4479v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

14 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. To appear in Proceedings for "Compact stars in the QCD phase diagram II (CSQCD II), May 20-24, 2

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For finite chemical potential effective models of QCD predict a first order phase transition. In favour for the search of such a phase transition in nature, we construct an equation of state for strange quark matter based on the MIT bag model. We apply this equation of state to highly asymmetric core collapse supernova matter with finite temperatures and large baryon densities. The phase transition is constructed using the general Gibbs conditions, which results in an extended coexistence region between the pure hadronic and pure quark phases in the phase diagram, i.e. the mixed phase. The supernovae are simulated via general relativistic radiation hydrodynamics based on three flavor Boltzmann neutrino transport in spherical symmetry. During the dynamical evolution temperatures above 10 MeV, baryon densities above nuclear saturation density and a proton-to-baryon ratio below 0.2 are obtained. At these conditions the phase transition is triggered which leads to a significant softening of the EoS for matter in the mixed phase. As a direct consequence of the stiffening of the EoS again for matter in the pure quark phase, a shock wave forms at the boundary between the mixed and the pure hadronic phases. This shock is accelerated and propagates outward which releases a burst of neutrinos dominated by electron anti-neutrinos due to the lifted degeneracy of the shock-heated hadronic material. We discuss the radiation-hydrodynamic evolution of the phase transition at the example of several low and intermediate mass Fe-core progenitor stars and illustrate the expected neutrino signal from the phase transition.

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