Nuclear Pasta in Supernova and Neutron Star Mergers
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Nuclear Pasta in Supernova and Neutron Star Mergers
Matt Caplan Indiana University
JINA-CEE Forging Connections 2017
June 28, 2017
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Summary
Ejecta in SNe and NSMs may have enhanced neutrino opacity just prior to the r-process. Does this change initial conditions and thus yields?
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Summary
Ejecta in SNe and NSMs may have enhanced neutrino opacity just prior to the r-process. Does this change initial conditions and thus yields?
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Nuclear Pasta .
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Neutron Star Structure• What’s inside a neutron star?
• Not just a “giant nucleus in space!”
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Nuclear Pasta
• Neutron star core is uniform nuclear matter (n0 = 2.4 × 1014 g cm-3)
• The crust is conventional, isolated nuclei • What sort of nuclear phase transition must occur between these
two phases of matter? n << n0 n ≈ n0 n > n0
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Non-Spherical Nuclei
• First theoretical models of the shapes of nuclei near n0 1983: Ravenhall, Pethick, & Wilson 1984: Hashimoto, H. Seki, and M. Yamada
• Frustration: Competition between proton-proton Coulomb repulsion and strong nuclear attraction
• Nucleons adopt non-spherical geometries near the saturation density to minimize surface energy
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Nuclear Pasta
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Classical Pasta Formalism• Classical Molecular Dynamics with IUMD on Big Red II
• Short range nuclear force • Long range Coulomb force
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Classical Pasta Formalism• Classical Molecular Dynamics with IUMD on Big Red II
• Short range nuclear force • Long range Coulomb force
Proton Fraction
Density
Temperature
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Gold NucleusFor Scale
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Phases of Pasta
• Where does pasta form? 1) Inner crust of neutron stars
(Watanabe et al. 2011)
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Phases of Pasta
• Where does pasta form? 1) Inner crust of neutron stars
… but that’s not interesting
(Watanabe et al. 2011)
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Phases of Pasta
• Where does pasta form? 1) Inner crust of neutron stars
… but that’s not interesting• Under what conditions does
pasta form?
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Phases of Pasta
• Where does pasta form? 1) Inner crust of neutron stars
… but that’s not interesting• Under what conditions does
pasta form? 1) Temperature: T ≲ 10 MeV 2) Density: 0.1 n0 ≲ n ≲ 1.0 n0 3) Proton Fraction: 0.1 ≲ Ye
(Sonoda et al., 2008)(Schuetrumpf et al. 2013)(Caplan et al., in prep)
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Phases of Pasta
• Where does pasta form? 1) Inner crust of neutron stars
… but that’s not interesting 2) Supernova? 3) Neutrons star mergers?
• Under what conditions does pasta form?
1) Temperature: T ≲ 10 MeV 2) Density: 0.1 n0 ≲ n ≲ 1.0 n0 3) Proton Fraction: 0.1 ≲ Ye
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Phases of Pasta
• Where does pasta form? 1) Inner crust of neutron stars
… but that’s not interesting 2) Supernova? 3) Neutrons star mergers?
Where in these do we find these conditions?
• Under what conditions does pasta form?
1) Temperature: T ≲ 10 MeV 2) Density: 0.1 n0 ≲ n ≲ 1.0 n0 3) Proton Fraction: 0.1 ≲ Ye
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Supernova
• Pasta has been studied for its role in supernova • When the core collapses
to form a proto-neutronstar, it deleptonizes.
• The flux of 1058 neutrinos from the core interactswith the infalling gas, blowing off the outerlayers
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Supernova
• This makes pasta opaque, trapping neutrinos
ν
• Pasta has been studied for its role in supernova • Pasta ‘pieces’ have a separation comparable to neutrino
wavelengths, so neutrinos can scatter coherently from pasta
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Supernova
• We calculate the opacityof pasta, or mean free path,from molecular dynamics simulations
(Horowitz et al., 2004) (Caplan et al., 2017)
(Horowitz et al., 2016)
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Supernova
• What happens when you includepasta opacity in supernovasimulations?
• 1D Simulation of supernova with pasta (solid) and without pasta (dashed)
• Pasta gives supernova a hotter, extended atmosphere.
• What does this do to neutrinoluminosities?
(Horowitz et al., 2016)
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Supernova
• What does this do to neutrinoluminosities?
• Well, we observed ~20 neutrinosfrom SN1987A. With SuperK, weexpect several thousand detections.
• Pasta has a distinct effect on supernova neutrino signals:
• More energetic neutrinos atlater times
• More neutrinos at late timesafter core collapse
(Horowitz et al., 2016)
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Open Questions
• What is the neutrino opacity of pasta?
• What effect does this neutrino opacity have on supernova?
• Certainly, the enhanced neutrino opacity should affect the proton fraction of the pasta. This is material that is hot, dense, and neutron rich, and may undergo the r-process. How does pasta change the r-process?
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Neutron Star Mergers
• What about neutron star mergers? • It’s like a supernova run in reverse… • Ejecta may pass through pasta phases
n << n0 n ≈ n0 n > n0
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Neutron Star Mergers• One recent result (Lippuner, 2017), the lifetime of the
hypermassive NS in a merger strongly effects r-process yields
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Forging Connections
Astrophysic
s
Nuclear
Theory
• Theory can provide the modified neutrino opacities for pasta matter.
• Can simulation/nuclear reaction network codes be modified to study the effect that pasta plays on the ejecta?