Speaker
Prof.
Mark Alford
(Washington University, St Louis)
Description
Neutrino absorption and emission (the "Urca process") is an essential aspect of the formation and cooling of neutron stars and of neutron star mergers. In this talk I will describe the traditional way of calculating Urca rates, explain its shortfalls, and propose an alternative approach, the nucleon width approximation.
Author
Dr
Alex Haber
(Southanpton Univ)
Co-author
Prof.
Mark Alford
(Washington University, St Louis)
