Nuclear matter in the crust of neutron stars

Details Nuclear matter in the crust of neutron stars Nuclear matter in the crust of neutron stars

2007-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/0704.1984v1

Phys.Rev.C76:024312,2007

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

23 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.76.024312

The properties of inhomogeneous nuclear matter are investigated considering the self-consistent Skyrme Hartree-Fock approach with inclusion of pairing correlations. For a comparison we also consider a relativistic mean field approach. The inhomogeneous infinite matter is described in terms of cubic Wigner-Seitz cells, which leads to a smooth transition to the limit of homogeneous nuclear matter. The possible existence of various structures in the so-called pasta phase is investigated within this self-consistent approach and a comparison is made to results obtained within the Thomas-Fermi approximation. Results for the proton abundances and the pairing properties are discussed for densities for which clustering phenomena are obtained.

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