Neutrinos and nucleosynthesis of elements

T Fischer, G Guo, K Langanke… - Progress in Particle and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Neutrinos are known to play important roles in many astrophysical scenarios from the early
period of the big bang to current stellar evolution being a unique messenger of the fusion …

Disordered nuclear pasta, magnetic field decay, and crust cooling in neutron stars

CJ Horowitz, DK Berry, CM Briggs, ME Caplan… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Nuclear pasta, with nonspherical shapes, is expected near the base of the crust in neutron
stars. Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of pasta show long lived topological …

A neutron star is born

DP Menezes - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
A neutron star was first detected as a pulsar in 1967. It is one of the most mysterious
compact objects in the universe, with a radius of the order of 10 km and masses that can …

Quantum nuclear pasta and nuclear symmetry energy

FJ Fattoyev, CJ Horowitz, B Schuetrumpf - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
Complex and exotic nuclear geometries, collectively referred to as “nuclear pasta,” are
expected to appear naturally in dense nuclear matter found in the crusts of neutron stars and …

The influence of strong magnetic fields on proto-quark stars

V Dexheimer, DP Menezes… - Journal of Physics G …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze different stages of magnetized quark star evolution incorporating baryon
number conservation and using an anisotropic energy–momentum tensor. The first stages of …

Anisotropic electron transport in the nuclear pasta phase

MR Pelicer, M Antonelli, DP Menezes… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The presence of nuclear pasta is expected to modify the transport properties in the mantle of
neutron stars. The non-spherical geometry of the pasta nuclear clusters leads to …

Minimal nuclear energy density functional

A Bulgac, MMN Forbes, S Jin, RN Perez, N Schunck - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
We present a minimal nuclear energy density functional (NEDF) called “SeaLL1” that has
the smallest number of possible phenomenological parameters to date. SeaLL1 is defined …

Nuclear “waffles”

AS Schneider, DK Berry, CM Briggs, ME Caplan… - Physical Review C, 2014 - APS
Background: The dense neutron-rich matter found in supernovae and inside neutron stars is
expected to form complex nonuniform phases, often referred to as nuclear pasta. The pasta …

Domains and defects in nuclear pasta

AS Schneider, ME Caplan, DK Berry, CJ Horowitz - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
Nuclear pasta topology is an essential ingredient to determine transport properties in the
inner crust of neutron stars. We perform semiclassical molecular dynamics simulations of …

Stability windows for proto-quark stars

V Dexheimer, JR Torres, DP Menezes - The European Physical Journal C, 2013 - Springer
We investigate the existence of possible stable strange matter and related stability windows
at finite temperature for different models that are generally applied to describe quark stars …