Published October 15, 2008 | Version v1
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Bulk viscosity of superfluid hyperon stars

  • 1. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Politekhnicheskaya 26, 194021 Saint-Petersburg (Russian Federation)

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We calculate the bulk viscosity due to nonequilibrium weak processes in superfluid nucleon-hyperon matter of neutron stars. For that, the dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics, formulated eariler [M. E. Gusakov, Phys. Rev. D 76, 083001 (2007).] for superfluid mixtures, is extended to the case when both nucleons and hyperons are superfluid. It is demonstrated that in the most general case (when neutrons, protons, Λ, and Σ- hyperons are superfluid), nonequilibrium weak processes generate 16 bulk viscosity coefficients, with only three of them being independent. In addition, we correct an inaccuracy in a widely used formula for the bulk viscosity of nonsuperfluid nucleon-hyperon matter.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
78
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
p. 083006-083006.10
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2008 The American Physical Society