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Plasma effects in neutrino-pair emission due to Cooper pairing of protons in superconducting neutron stars
The neutrino emission due to formation and breaking of Cooper pairs of
protons in superconducting cores of neutron stars is considered with taking
into account the electromagnetic coupling of protons to ambient electrons. Our
calculation shows that the contribution of the vector weak current to the
emissivity of protons is much larger than that calculated by
different authors without taking into account the plasma effects. Partial
contribution of the pairing protons to the total neutrino radiation from the
neutron star core is very sensitive to the critical temperatures for the proton
and neutron pairing and can dominate in some domains of these parameters.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, Contribution to the International Workshop
``HADRON PHYSICS 2002'', April 14 -- 19, Bento Goncalves, Rio Grande do Sul,
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Weak magnetism effects in the direct Urca processes in cooling neutron stars
In the mean field approximation, we study the effects of weak magnetism and
pseudoscalar interaction in the neutrino energy losses caused by the direct
Urca processes on relativistic nucleons in the degenerate baryon matter. Our
formula for the neutrino energy losses incorporates the effects of nucleon
recoil, parity violation, weak magnetism, and pseudoscalar interaction. For
numerical testing of our formula, we use a self-consistent relativistic model
of the multicomponent baryon matter. We found that, due to weak magnetism
effects, relativistic emissivities increase by approximately 40-50%, while the
pseudoscalar interaction only slightly suppresses the energy losses,
approximately by 5%.Comment: 11 pages,1 figur