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A Self-Consistent Approach to Neutral-Current Processes in Supernova Cores

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arxiv astro-ph/9312019 v2 pith:FZX7MM6Q submitted 1993-12-10 astro-ph hep-ph

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keywords emissionfunctionsmediumprocessesneutrinopairstructurecooling
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The problem of neutral-current processes (neutrino scattering, pair emission, pair absorption, axion emission, \etc) in a nuclear medium can be separated into an expression representing the phase space of the weakly interacting probe, and a set of dynamic structure functions of the medium. For a non-relativistic medium we reduce the description to two structure functions $S_A(\o)$ and $S_V(\o)$ of the energy transfer, representing the axial-vector and vector interactions. $S_V$ is well determined by the single-nucleon approximation while $S_A$ may be dominated by multiply interacting nucleons. Unless the shape of $S_A(\o)$ changes dramatically at high densities, scattering processes always dominate over pair processes for neutrino transport or the emission of right-handed states. Because the emission of right-handed neutrinos and axions is controlled by the same medium response functions, a consistent constraint on their properties from consideration of supernova cooling should use the same structure functions for both neutrino transport and exotic cooling mechanisms.

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