scholarly journals Calculation of three-body nuclear reactions with angular-momentum and parity-dependent optical potentials

2016 ◽  
Vol 94 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Deltuva ◽  
D. Jurčiukonis
2020 ◽  
Vol 499 (3) ◽  
pp. 4097-4113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yossef Zenati ◽  
Daniel M Siegel ◽  
Brian D Metzger ◽  
Hagai B Perets

ABSTRACT The core collapse of massive, rapidly-rotating stars are thought to be the progenitors of long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRB) and their associated hyperenergetic supernovae (SNe). At early times after the collapse, relatively low angular momentum material from the infalling stellar envelope will circularize into an accretion disc located just outside the black hole horizon, resulting in high accretion rates necessary to power a GRB jet. Temperatures in the disc mid-plane at these small radii are sufficiently high to dissociate nuclei, while outflows from the disc can be neutron-rich and may synthesize r-process nuclei. However, at later times, and for high progenitor angular momentum, the outer layers of the stellar envelope can circularize at larger radii ≳ 107 cm, where nuclear reactions can take place in the disc mid-plane (e.g. 4He + 16O → 20Ne + γ). Here we explore the effects of nuclear burning on collapsar accretion discs and their outflows by means of hydrodynamical α-viscosity torus simulations coupled to a 19-isotope nuclear reaction network, which are designed to mimic the late infall epochs in collapsar evolution when the viscous time of the torus has become comparable to the envelope fall-back time. Our results address several key questions, such as the conditions for quiescent burning and accretion versus detonation and the generation of 56Ni in disc outflows, which we show could contribute significantly to powering GRB SNe. Being located in the slowest, innermost layers of the ejecta, the latter could provide the radioactive heating source necessary to make the spectral signatures of r-process elements visible in late-time GRB-SNe spectra.


2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (30) ◽  
pp. 1793-1802 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. MODARRES

We investigate the possible angular momentum, l, dependence of the ground state energy of normal liquid 3 He . The method of lowest order constrained variational (LOCV) which includes the three-body cluster energy and normalization constraint (LOCVE) is used with angular momentum dependent two-body correlation functions. A functional minimization is performed with respect to each l-channel correlation function. It is shown that this dependence increases the binding energy of liquid 3 He by 8% with respect to calculations without angular momentum dependent correlation functions. The l=0 state has completely different behavior with respect to other l-channels. It is also found that the main contribution from potential energy comes from the l=1 state (p-waves) and the effect of l≥11 is less than about 0.1%. The effective interactions and two-body correlations in different channels are being discussed. Finally we conclude that this l-dependence can be verified experimentally by looking into the magnetization properties of liquid helium 3 and interatomic potentials.


1964 ◽  
Vol 136 (4B) ◽  
pp. B1137-B1153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland L. Omnes ◽  
Victor A. Alessandrini

1999 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 439-440
Author(s):  
Christopher K. Mccord ◽  
Kenneth R. Meyer

The spatial (planar) three-body problem admits the ten (six) integrals of energy, center of mass, linear momentum and angular momentum. Fixing these integrals defines an eight (six) dimensional algebraic set called the integral manifold, 𝔐(c, h) (m(c, h)), which depends on the energy level h and the magnitude c of the angular momentum vector. The seven (five) dimensional reduced integral manifold, 𝔐R(c, h) (mR(c, h)), is the quotient space 𝔐(c, h)/SO2 (m(c, h)/SO2) where the SO2 action is rotation about the angular momentum vector. We want to determine how the geometry or topology of these sets depends on c and h. It turns out that there is one bifurcation parameter, ν = −c2h, and nme (six) special values of this parameter, νi, i = 1, …, 9.At each of the special values the geometric restrictions imposed by the integrals change, but one of these values, ν5, does not give rise to a change in the topology of the integral manifolds 𝔐(c, h) and 𝔐R(c, h). The other eight special values give rise to nine different topologically distinct cases. We give a complete description of the geometry of these sets along with their homology. These results confirm some conjectures and refutes several others.


1992 ◽  
Vol 151 ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Peter Bodenheimer

Recent observational studies of the properties of binary systems among young stars indicate that the majority of binaries are formed very early in the history of a star, perhaps during the protostellar collapse. Major observational facts to be explained include the overall binary frequency, the non-negligible occurrence of multiple systems, and the distributions of period, eccentricity, and mass ratio among the individual binaries. Theoretical calculations of the collapse of rotating protostars during the isothermal phase indicate instability to fragmentation into multiple systems. This process in general produces systems with periods greater than a few hundred years, although somewhat shorter periods are possible. Fragmentation during later, optically thick, phases of collapse tends to be suppressed by pressure effects. Therefore, major theoretical problems remain concerning the origin of close binaries. Fission of rapidly rotating stars, tidal capture, and three-body capture have been shown to be improbable mechanisms for formation of close binaries. Mechanisms currently under study include gravitational instabilities in disks, orbital interactions and disk-induced captures in fragmented multiple systems, hierarchical fragmentation, and orbital decay of long-period systems. Single stars, on the other hand, could result by escape from multiple systems or by the collapse of clouds of low angular momentum, coupled with angular momentum transport after disk formation.


1999 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 291-302
Author(s):  
Steven R. Chesley

AbstractThe isosceles three-body problem with Sitnikov-type symmetry has been reduced to a two-dimensional area-preserving Poincaré map depending on two parameters: the mass ratio, and the total angular momentum. The entire parameter space is explored, contrasting new results with ones obtained previously in the planar (zero angular momentum) case. The region of allowable motion is divided into subregions according to a symbolic dynamics representation. This enables a geometric description of the system based on the intersection of the images of the subregions with the preimages. The paper also describes the regions of allowable motion and bounded motion, and discusses the stability of the dominant periodic orbit.


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