Published February 2010 | Version v1
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Microscopic calculations of transport properties of neutron matter

  • 1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita 'La Sapienza', I-00185 Roma (Italy)
  • 2. INFN, Sezione di Roma, I-00185 Roma (Italy)
  • 3. Departament d'Estructura i Constituents de la Materia, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
  • 4. Centro de Fisica Computacional, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, P-3004-516 Coimbra (Portugal)

Description

We discuss the results of calculations of the shear viscosity and thermal conductivity of pure neutron matter, carried out within the Landau-Abrikosov-Khalatnikov formalism. The probability of neutron-neutron collisions in the nuclear medium has been obtained from a realistic potential, using both the correlated basis function and the G-matrix approach. The results of our work indicate that medium modifications of nucleon-nucleon scattering are large, their inclusion leading to a dramatic enhancement of the transport coefficients. On the other hand, the results obtained from the two theoretical schemes appear to be in fairly good agreement.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 024305-024305.8
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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