Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-05-25
Phys.Rev.C78:015806,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRC
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.78.015806
We study the composition of the outer layers of a protoneutron star and show that light nuclei are present in substantial amounts. The composition is dominated by nucleons, deuterons, tritons and alpha particles; 3He is present in smaller amounts. This composition can be studied in laboratory experiments with new neutron-rich radioactive beams that can reproduce similar densities and temperatures. After including the corresponding neutrino interactions, we demonstrate that light nuclei have a small impact on the average energy of the emitted electron neutrinos, but are significant for the average energy of antineutrinos. During the early post-explosion phase, the average energy of electron antineutrinos is slightly increased, while at later times during the protoneutron star cooling it is reduced by about 1 MeV. The consequences of these changes for nucleosynthesis in neutrino-driven supernova outflows are discussed.
Arcones Almudena
Horowitz Charles J.
Janka H.-Th.
Langanke Karlheinz
Martinez-Pinedo Gabriel
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