Evidence for an Intense Neutrino Flux during $r$-Process Nucleosynthesis?

Details Evidence for an Intense Neutrino Flux during $r$-Process Nucleosynthesis? Evidence for an Intense Neutrino Flux during $r$-Process Nucleosynthesis?

1996-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9603082v1

Astrophys.J. 464 (1996) L143-L146

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, plain tex, submitted to ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/310109

We investigate the possibility that neutrino capture on heavy nuclei competes with beta decay in the environment where the $r$-Process elements are synthesized. We find that such neutrino capture is not excluded by existing abundance determinations. We show that inclusion of significant neutrino capture on the (neutron number) N=82 waiting point nuclei can allow the inferred abundances of these species to provide a good fit to steady weak (beta decay plus neutrino capture) flow equilibrium. In fact, for particular choices of neutrino flux conditions, this fit is improved over the case where nuclei change their charge by beta decay alone. However, this improved fit can be realized only if neutrino capture plays a negligible role in nuclear decay back toward stability. We discuss the implications of these considerations for current proposed sites and models for $r$-Process nucleosynthesis.

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