The steady equilibrium conditions for a mixed gas of neutrons, protons, electrons, positrons and radiation fields （abbreviated as npe^± gas） with or without external neutrino flux are investigated, and a genera...The steady equilibrium conditions for a mixed gas of neutrons, protons, electrons, positrons and radiation fields （abbreviated as npe^± gas） with or without external neutrino flux are investigated, and a general chemical potential equilibrium equation μn = μp ＋ Cμe is obtained to describe the steady equilibrium at high temperatures （T 〉 10^9 K）. An analytic fitting formula of coefficient C is presented for the sake of simplicity, when neutrinos and antineutrinos are transparent. It is a simple method to estimate the electron fraction for the steady equilibrium npe^± gas that adopts the corresponding equilibrium condition. As an example, we apply this method to the GRB accretion disk and confirm that the composition in the inner region is approximately in equilibrium when the accretion rate is low. For the case with external neutrino flux, we calculate the initial electron fraction of neutrino-driven wind from the proto-neutron star model M15-l1-r1. The results show that the improved equilibrium condition makes the electron fraction decrease significantly more than the case μn = μp ＋ μe when the time is less than 5s post bounce, which may be useful for r-process nucleosynthesis models.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10733010, 10673010 and 10573016)the National Basic Research Program of China (2009CB824800)+2 种基金the Scientific Research Funds of Sichuan Provincial Education Department (10ZC014, 2009ZB087)China West Normal University(09A004)Graduate Innovation Funds of USTC
文摘The steady equilibrium conditions for a mixed gas of neutrons, protons, electrons, positrons and radiation fields （abbreviated as npe^± gas） with or without external neutrino flux are investigated, and a general chemical potential equilibrium equation μn = μp ＋ Cμe is obtained to describe the steady equilibrium at high temperatures （T 〉 10^9 K）. An analytic fitting formula of coefficient C is presented for the sake of simplicity, when neutrinos and antineutrinos are transparent. It is a simple method to estimate the electron fraction for the steady equilibrium npe^± gas that adopts the corresponding equilibrium condition. As an example, we apply this method to the GRB accretion disk and confirm that the composition in the inner region is approximately in equilibrium when the accretion rate is low. For the case with external neutrino flux, we calculate the initial electron fraction of neutrino-driven wind from the proto-neutron star model M15-l1-r1. The results show that the improved equilibrium condition makes the electron fraction decrease significantly more than the case μn = μp ＋ μe when the time is less than 5s post bounce, which may be useful for r-process nucleosynthesis models.
