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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 443, Issue 1, Pages 201-210Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20053236
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stars : supernovae : general; neutrinos; radiative transfer; hydrodynamics
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The role of ion-ion correlations in suppressing neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering during stellar core collapse is reinvestigated, using two different equations of state. We test the improved description by Itoh et al. against the treatment suggested by Horowitz and find that the stronger cross-section reduction for small momentum transfer in the former case does not lead to noticeable changes of the core deleptonization and entropy increase during collapse, because the improvements are relevant below neutrino trapping conditions only for very low neutrino energies, corresponding to a very small phase-space volume. Treating screening effects for ionic mixtures by the linear mixing rule applied to the collection of representative heavy nucleus, a particles, and free nucleons, which is assumed to characterize the composition in nuclear statistical equilibrium, we cannot determine mentionable differences during stellar collapse, because alpha particles are not sufficiently abundant, and their coherent scattering opacity is too small.
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