A review of the neutrino emission processes in the late stages of the stellar evolutions

TL;DR

This review examines neutrino emission processes as key energy loss mechanisms in late stellar evolution stages, considering magnetic field effects within the Standard Model framework.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of neutrino emission processes, including magnetic field influences, using minimal Standard Model extensions and considering all neutrino flavors.

Findings

Magnetic fields significantly affect neutrino emission processes.

Different processes dominate depending on magnetic field strength.

Neutrino emissions are crucial energy loss mechanisms in late stellar stages.

Abstract

In this paper the neutrino emission processes being supposed to be the main sources of energy loss in the stellar core in the later stages of stellar evolution are reviewed. All the calculations are carried out in the framework of electro-weak theory based on the Standard Model. It is considered that the neutrino has a little mass, which is very much consistent with the phenomenological evidences and presupposes a minimal extension of the Standard Model. All three neutrinos (i.e., electron neutrino, muon neutrino and tau neutrino) are taken into account in the calculations. It is evident that the strong magnetic field, present in the degenerate stellar objects such as neutron stars, has remarkable influence on some neutrino emission processes. The intensity of such magnetic field is very close to the critical value ($H_{c}=4.414\times 10^{13}$ G) and sometimes exceeds it. In this paper the region of dominance of different neutrino emission processes in absence of magnetic field is picturized. The region of importance of the neutrino emission processes in presence of a strong magnetic field is indicated by a picture. The study reveals the significant contributions of some neutrino emission processes, both in absence and in presence of a strong magnetic field in the later stages of stellar evolution.