Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-05-14
Phys.Rev.D75:103004,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.103004
We calculate the thermal conductivity of electrons and muons kappa_{e-mu} produced owing to electromagnetic interactions of charged particles in neutron star cores and show that these interactions are dominated by the exchange of transverse plasmons (via the Landau damping of these plasmons in nonsuperconducting matter and via a specific plasma screening in the presence of proton superconductivity). For normal protons, the Landau damping strongly reduces kappa_{e-mu} and makes it temperature independent. Proton superconductivity suppresses the reduction and restores the Fermi-liquid behavior kappa_{e-mu} ~ 1/T. Comparing with the thermal conductivity of neutrons kappa_n, we obtain kappa_{e-mu}> kappa_n for T>2 GK in normal matter and for any T in superconducting matter with proton critical temperatures T_c>3e9 K. The results are described by simple analytic formulae.
Shternin Peter S.
Yakovlev Dmitry G.
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