Published May 30, 2001 | Version v1
Journal article

Collapse of a neutron gas in a strong magnetic field

  • 1. Departmento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellin (Colombia)
  • 2. International Centre for Theoretical Physics, P.O. Box 586, 34100 Trieste (Italy)
  • 3. ICIMAF, Calle E No. 309, 10400 Havana (Cuba)

Description

We study the magnetic properties of a degenerate neutron gas in equilibrium with a background of electrons and protons. The effective mass of one branch of the neutron spectrum become massless for magnetic fields B∼1020 G. At fields near and below that order, the neutron gas experiences a transverse magnetic collapse similar to the one described in paper Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (2000), 5261 for the electron gas. We conjecture this collapse would provide a mechanism for production of highly energetic particles

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Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
566
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 377-380
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
International workshop on observing ultra high energy cosmic rays from space and earth
Dates
9-12 Aug 2000
Place
Metepec, Puebla (Mexico)

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(c) 2001 American Institute of Physics.