Neutrino emissivity from e sup minus synchrotron and e sup minus e+ annihilation processes in a strong magnetic field: General formalism and nonrelativistic limit

Journal Article · Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 1992 · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.46.3256· OSTI ID:7200020

Kaminker, A D; Levenfish, K P; Yakovlev, D G ^[1]; Haensel, P ^[2]

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1. A. F. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology, SU 194021, St. Petersburg (Russia)
2. Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bartycka 18, PL-00-716 Warszawa (Poland)

A general formalism is developed for calculating the neutrino emissivities of synchrotron and {ital e}{sup {minus}}{ital e+} annihilation radiations in a plasma in the presence of a large magnetic field {ital B}{similar to}10{sup 12}--10{sup 14} G. As a first step, the formalism is used to calculate the synchrotron and annihilation radiations from a nonrelativistic electron plasma (density {rho}{approx lt}10{sup 6} g cm{sup {minus}3}, temperature {ital T}{approx lt}6{times}10{sup 9} K) including the cases of nondegenerate and degenerate electrons, and of quantizing and nonquantizing magnetic fields. We conclude that these processes can be important for neutrino production in a hot plasma of neutron star envelopes.

• OSTI ID: 7200020
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Vol. 46:8; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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