Low-Density Instability of Multi-Component Matter with Trapped Neutrinos

TL;DR

This study investigates how neutrino trapping influences low-density matter stability using relativistic mean field models, revealing that neutrino presence enlarges instability regions mainly due to increased proton and electron content.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of the impact of neutrino trapping on matter stability, highlighting the significance of isovector adjustments and Coulomb interactions across different relativistic models.

Findings

Neutrino trapping enlarges the instability region of matter.

Isovector adjustment effects are more prominent in the Horowitz-Piekarewicz model.

Coulomb interactions dominate in certain low-density regimes with neutrino trapping.

Abstract

The effect of neutrino trapping on the longitudinal dielectric function at low densities has been investigated by using different relativistic mean field models. Parameter sets G2 of Furnstahl-Serot-Tang and Z271 of Horowitz-Piekarewicz, along with the adjusted parameter sets of both models, have been used in this study. The role of the isovector adjustment and the effect of the Coulomb interaction have been also studied. The effect of the isovector adjustment is found to be more significant in the Horowitz-Piekarewicz model, not only in the neutrinoless matter, but also in the matter with neutrino trapping. Although almost independent to the variation of the leptonic fraction, the instability region of matter with neutrino trapping is found to be larger. The presence of more protons and electrons compared to the neutrinoless case is the reason behind this finding. For parameter sets with soft equation of states at low density, the appearance of a large and negative epsilon_L (q, q0 = 0) in some parts of the edge of the instability region in matter with neutrino trapping is understood as a consequence of the fact that the Coulomb interaction produced by electrons and protons interaction is larger than the repulsive isovector interaction created by the asymmetry between the proton and neutron numbers.