Published December 12, 2000 | Version v1
Journal article

Charge conjugation violation in supernovae and the neutron shortage for R-process nucleosynthesis

  • 1. Nuclear Theory Center and Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 (United States)

Description

Core collapse supernovae are dominated by energy transport from neutrinos. Therefore, some supernova properties could depend on symmetries and features of the standard model weak interactions. The cross section for neutrino capture is larger than that for antineutrino capture by one term of order the neutrino energy over the nucleon mass. This reduces the ratio of neutrons to protons in the ν-driven wind above a protoneutron star by approximately 20% and may significantly hinder r-process nucleosynthesis

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
549
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 729-732
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
7. conference on intersections of particle and nuclear physics
Acronym
CIPANP
Dates
22-28 May 2000
Place
Quebec City (Canada)

Optional Information

Notes
(c) 2000 American Institute of Physics.