Published 1985 | Version v1
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Monopoles and main sequence stars

Creators

  • 1. Astronomy and Astrophysics Center, The Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637

Description

The author discusses the interactions of super-heavy monopoles with stars, summarizing the monopole capture rate as a function of stellar and monopole mass. Among neutron star progenitors (M -- 10M/sub sub solar/), convection prevents monopole-antimonopole annihilations and all but the strongly magnetic stars retain a substantial fraction of the monopoles they capture. Including monopoles captured on the main sequence strengthens the upper bound on the monopole flux due to monopole-catalyzed nucleon decay in neutron stars by six orders of magnitude F/sub M/ σ/sub -27/ < 10/sup -27/ cm/sup -2/ sec /sup -1/ sr/sup -1/ (where the catalysis cross-section σ/sub c/ = σ/sub -27/ 10/sup -27/ cm/sup 2/)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
World Scientific Pub. Co.
Imprint Place
Teaneck, NJ (USA)
ISBN
9971-978-46-6
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the Santa Fe meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society
Journal Page Range
p. 476-477.

Conference

Title
American Physical Society meeting.
Dates
31 Oct - 3 Nov 1984.
Place
Santa Fe, NM (USA).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
19015828
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ANNIHILATION; CAPTURE; CONVECTION; DECAY; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MAGNETIC MONOPOLES; MAIN SEQUENCE STARS; MASS; NEUTRON STARS; NUCLEONS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; RADIATION FLUX; STAR EVOLUTION; STAR MODELS
Descriptors DEC
BARYONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY TRANSFER; FERMIONS; HADRONS; HEAT TRANSFER; INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOPOLES; PHYSICS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; STARS