Bulk viscosity of superfluid hyperon stars
- Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Politekhnicheskaya 26, 194021 Saint-Petersburg (Russian Federation)
We calculate the bulk viscosity due to nonequilibrium weak processes in superfluid nucleon-hyperon matter of neutron stars. For that, the dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics, formulated eariler [M. E. Gusakov, Phys. Rev. D 76, 083001 (2007).] for superfluid mixtures, is extended to the case when both nucleons and hyperons are superfluid. It is demonstrated that in the most general case (when neutrons, protons, {lambda}, and {sigma}{sup -} hyperons are superfluid), nonequilibrium weak processes generate 16 bulk viscosity coefficients, with only three of them being independent. In addition, we correct an inaccuracy in a widely used formula for the bulk viscosity of nonsuperfluid nucleon-hyperon matter.
- OSTI ID:
- 21254376
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 78, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.083006; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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