Vertex renormalization of weak interactions and Cooper-pair breaking in cooling compact stars
Vertex renormalization of weak interactions and Cooper-pair breaking in cooling compact stars
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冷却致密星中弱相互作用的顶点重正化和库珀对断裂
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2006
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P. Schuck
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A. Sedrakian;H. Muther;P. Schuck
Below the critical temperature of superfluid phase transition baryonic matter emits neutrinos by breaking and recombination of Cooper pairs formed in the condensate. The weak vector and axial-vector vertices and the neutrino loss rates via pair breaking are modified by strong interactions in nuclear medium. We study these modifications nonperturbatively by summing infinite series of particle-hole loops in $S$-wave superfluid neutron matter. The interactions in the particle-hole channel are described within the Landau Fermi-liquid framework with the Landau parameters derived from the microscopic theory. The $S$-wave superfluid is described within the BCS theory. We derive the renormalized three-point vector and axial-vector vertices and the complete polarization tensor of matter and its low momentum transfer expansion. The leading-order term in this expansion and the associated neutrino losses arise at $O({q}^{2})$, consistent with the $f$-sum rule. The neutrino emission rate due to the pair breaking is parametrically suppressed compared to its one-loop counterpart by the ratio of the neutron recoil energy to the temperature, which is of order $5\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}3}$. The approximations to the normal and anomalous self-energies that guarantee the conformity of the theory with the generalized Ward identities are established.