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Effects of a new triple- reaction rate on the helium ignition of accreting white dwarfs
Effects of a new triple-alpha reaction rate on the ignition of carbon-oxygen
white dwarfs accreting helium in a binary systems have been investigated. The
ignition points determine the properties of a thermonuclear explosion of a Type
Ia supernova. We examine the cases of different accretion rates of helium and
different initial masses of the white dwarf, which was studied in detail by
Nomoto. We find that for all cases from slow to intermediate accretion rates,
nuclear burnings are ignited at the helium layers. As a consequence, carbon
deflagration would be triggered for the lower accretion rate compared to that
of which has been believed
to the lower limit of the accretion rate for the deflagration supernova.
Furthermore, off-center helium detonation should result for intermediate and
slow accretion rates and the region of carbon deflagration for slow accretion
rate is disappeared.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Classical Nature of the Inflaton Field with Self-Interaction
Taking into account the effect of self-interaction, the dynamics of the
quantum fluctuations of the inflaton field with potential is
studied in detail. We find that the self interaction efficiently drives the
initial pure state into a mixed one, which can be understood as a statistical
ensemble. Further, the expectation value of the squared field operator is found
to be converted into the variance of this statistical ensemble without giving
any significant change in its amplitude. These results verify the ansatz of the
quantum-to-classical transition that has been assumed in the standard
evaluation of the amplitude of the primordial fluctuations of the universe.Comment: 23 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. D1
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