Transport coefficients of nuclear matter in neutron star cores in the BHF framework

25 Mar 2014, 14:30
20m

Speaker

Peter Shternin

Description

We calculate shear viscosity and thermal conductivity of dense asymmetric nuclear matter in the neutron star cores. Nuclear interaction is treated in the framework of non-relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock formalism. The full Argonne v18 potential with addition of the Urbana IX effective three-body forces is used. In general, in-medium effects at two-body level lead to increase of the transport coefficients mainly due to decrease of the carriers’ effective masses. However, we found that use of the Urbana IX three-body force leads to decrease in the kinetic coefficients with the respect to two-body case. The results of our calculations [1] are compared with the electron and muon transport coefficients and with results of other authors. [1] P.S. Shternin, M. Baldo, and P.Haensel, PRC, 88, 065803 (2013)

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Co-authors

Dr Marcello Baldo (INFN sez. di Catania) PAWEL HAENSEL

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