Evaluating nuclear physics inputs in core-collapse supernova models

Eric J. Lentz, W. Raphael Hix, Mark L. Baird, O. E.Bronson Messer, Anthony Mezzacappa

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    Abstract

    Core-collapse supernova models depend on the details of the nuclear and weak interaction physics inputs just as they depend on the details of the macroscopic physics (transport, hydrodynamics, etc.), numerical methods, and progenitors. We present preliminary results from our ongoing comparison studies of nuclear and weak interaction physics inputs to core collapse supernova models using the spherically-symmetric, general relativistic, neutrino radiation hydrodynamics code Agile-Boltztran. We focus on comparisons of the effects of the nuclear EoS and the effects of improving the opacities, particularly neutrino-nucleon interactions.

    Original languageEnglish
    JournalProceedings of Science
    StatePublished - 2010
    Event11th Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos, NIC 2010 - Heidelberg, Germany
    Duration: Jul 19 2010Jul 23 2010

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