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Neutral current interactions of low-energy neutrinos in dense neutron matter

Alessandro Lovato·Omar Benhar·Stefano Gandolfi·Cristina Losa
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We report the results of a calculation of the response of cold neutron matter to neutral-current interactions with low energy neutrinos, carried out using an effective interaction and effective operators consistently derived within the formalism of Correlated Basis Functions. The neutrino mean free path obtained from the calculated responses turns out to be strongly affected by both short and long range correlations, leading to a sizable increase with respect to the prediction of the Fermi gas model. The consistency between the proposed approach and Landau theory of normal Fermi liquids also has been investigated, using a set of Landau parameters obtained from the matrix elements of the effective interaction.

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Alessandro Lovato, Omar Benhar, Stefano Gandolfi, Cristina Losa. 2013-10-01. Neutral current interactions of low-energy neutrinos in dense neutron matter. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.89.025804

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