Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2000-03-06
Phys.Rev. C62 (2000) 035803
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
24 pages, 17 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.62.035803
We study the equation of state (EOS) of kaon-condensed matter including the effects of temperature and trapped neutrinos. It is found that the order of the phase transition to a kaon-condensed phase, and whether or not Gibbs' rules for phase equilibrium can be satisfied in the case of a first order transition, depend sensitively on the choice of the kaon-nucleon interaction. The main effect of finite temperature, for any value of the lepton fraction, is to mute the effects of a first order transition, so that the thermodynamics becomes similar to that of a second order transition. Above a critical temperature, found to be at least 30--60 MeV depending upon the interaction, the first order transition disappears. The phase boundaries in baryon density versus lepton number and baryon density versus temperature planes are delineated. We find that the thermal effects on the maximum gravitational mass of neutron stars are as important as the effects of trapped neutrinos, in contrast to previously studied cases in which the matter contained only nucleons or in which hyperons and/or quark matter were considered. Kaon-condensed EOSs permit the existence of metastable neutron stars, because the maximum mass of an initially hot, lepton-rich protoneutron star is greater than that of a cold, deleptonized neutron star. The large thermal effects imply that a metastable protoneutron star's collapse to a black hole could occur much later than in previously studied cases that allow metastable configurations.
Ellis Paul J.
Lattimer James M.
Pons Jose A.
Prakash Madappa
Reddy Sanjay
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