scholarly journals NUCLEAR MATTER IN INTENSE MAGNETIC FIELD AND WEAK PROCESSES

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (03) ◽  
pp. 347-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
ASHOK GOYAL ◽  
V. K. GUPTA ◽  
KANUPRIYA GOSWAMI ◽  
VINITA TULI

We study the effect of magnetic field on the dominant neutrino emission processes in neutron stars. The processes are first calculated for the case when the magnetic field does not exceed the critical value to confine electrons to the lowest Landau state. We consider here magnetic fields up to ~1019 Gauss. We find that fields of strength 1015-1016 Gauss have significant effect on the neutronization process, for the direct URCA process the effect of the magnetic field becomes significant only at ~1019 Gauss. In order to estimate the effect we derive the composition of cold nuclear matter at high densities and in beta equilibrium, a situation appropriate for neutron stars. The hadronic interactions are incorporated through the exchange of scalar and vector mesons in the framework of relativistic mean field theory. In addition the effects of anomalous magnetic moments of nucleons are also considered.

2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (07) ◽  
pp. 1519-1524 ◽  
Author(s):  
VERÔNICA A. DEXHEIMER ◽  
CÉSAR A. Z. VASCONCELLOS ◽  
MOISÉS RAZEIRA ◽  
MANFRED DILLIG

For the nuclear many body problem at high densities, formulated in the framework of a relativistic mean-field theory, we investigate in detail the compression modulus of nuclear matter as a function of the effective nucleon mass. We include consistently in our modelling chemical equilibrium as well as baryon number and electric charge conservation and investigate properties of neutron stars. Among other predictions we focus on the dependence of the maximum mass of a sequence of neutron stars as a function of the compression modulus and the nucleon effective mass.


2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (29) ◽  
pp. 1789-1800 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. TAURINES ◽  
C. A. Z. VASCONCELLOS ◽  
M. MALHEIRO ◽  
M. CHIAPPARINI

We investigate static properties of nuclear and neutron star matter by using a relativistic mean field theory with parametrized couplings. With a suitable choice of mathematical parameters, the couplings allow one to reproduce results of current quantum hadrodynamics models. For other parametrizations, a better description of bulk properties of nuclear matter is obtained. The formalism is extended to include hyperon and lepton degrees of freedom, and an analysis on the effects of the phenomenological couplings in the fermion populations and mass of neutron stars is performed. The results show a strong similarity between the predictions of ZM-like models and those with exponential couplings. We have observed in particular an extreme sensibility of the predictions of these theories on the specific choice of the values of the binding energy of nuclear matter and saturation density. Additionally, the role of the very intense scalar meson mean field found in the interior of neutron stars in the screening of the nucleon mass is discussed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (05) ◽  
pp. 1350026 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHEN WU ◽  
WEI-LIANG QIAN ◽  
YU-GANG MA ◽  
JI-FENG YANG

Relativistic mean-field theory with parameter sets FSUGold and IU-FSU is extended to study the properties of neutron star matter in β equilibrium by including Kaon condensation. The mixed phase of normal baryons and Kaon condensation cannot exist in neutron star matter for the FSUGold model and the IU-FSU model. In addition, it is found that when the optical potential of the K- in normal nuclear matter UK ≳ -100 MeV , the Kaon condensation phase is absent in the inner cores of the neutron stars.


2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 545-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. K. GUPTA ◽  
ASHA GUPTA ◽  
S. SINGH ◽  
J. D. ANAND

We have studied phase transition from hadron matter to quark matter in the presence of high magnetic fields incorporating the trapped electron neutrinos at finite temperatures. We have used the density dependent quark mass (DDQM) model for the quark phase while the hadron phase is treated in the frame-work of relativistic mean field theory. It is seen that the energy density in the hadron phase at phase transition decreases with both magnetic field and temperature.


2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (07) ◽  
pp. 1249-1253
Author(s):  
DÉBORA P. MENEZES ◽  
C. PROVIDÊNCIA

We investigate the properties of mixed stars formed by hadronic and quark matter in β-equilibrium described by appropriate equations of state (EOS) in the framework of relativistic mean-field theory. The calculations were performed for T=0 and for finite temperatures and also for fixed entropies with and without neutrino trapping in order to describe neutron and proto-neutron stars. The star properties are discussed. Maximum allowed masses for proto-neutron stars are much larger when neutrino trapping is imposed.


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