ar X iv : n uc l - th / 0 50 80 44 v 1 2 3 A ug 2 00 5 Dynamical response of the nuclear “ pasta ” in neutron star crusts
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The nuclear pasta — a novel state of matter having nucleons arranged in a variety of complex shapes — is expected to be found in the crust of neutron stars and in core-collapse supernovae at subnuclear densities of about 10 g/cm. Due to frustration, a phenomenon that emerges from the competition between short-range nuclear attraction and long-range Coulomb repulsion, the nuclear pasta displays a preponderance of unique low-energy excitations. These excitations could have a strong impact on many transport properties, such as neutrino propagation through stellar environments. The excitation spectrum of the nuclear pasta is computed via a molecular-dynamics simulation involving up to 100,000 nucleons. The dynamic response of the pasta displays a classical plasma oscillation in the 1-2 MeV region. In addition, substantial strength is found at low energies. Yet this low-energy strength is missing from a simple ion model containing a single-representative heavy nucleus. The low-energy strength observed in the dynamic response of the pasta is likely to be a density wave involving the internal degrees of freedom of the clusters.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005