Bulk viscosity of two-color superconducting quark matter in neutron star mergers

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Autori principali: Alford, Mark, Harutyunyan, Arus, Sedrakian, Armen, Tsiopelas, Stefanos
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author Alford, Mark
Harutyunyan, Arus
Sedrakian, Armen
Tsiopelas, Stefanos
author_facet Alford, Mark
Harutyunyan, Arus
Sedrakian, Armen
Tsiopelas, Stefanos
contents We study the bulk viscosity of moderately hot and dense, neutrino-transparent color superconducting quark matter arising from weak-interaction-driven direct URCA processes. The quark matter is modeled using the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model improved to account for vector and 't Hooft interactions as well as antisymmetric pairing among the red/green up and down quarks. The unpaired excitations are the strange quarks and the blue up or down quarks. We compute the relaxation rates associated with $d$ and $s$-quark decay and electron capture processes on $u$ quark for blue color. The resulting bulk viscosity for density oscillations in the 1--10\,kHz range shows a resonant peak at $T\sim 5\,\MeV$, and the damping time may drop below 10 ms. This is short enough to affect the postmerger evolution and is very similar to the damping predicted in nuclear matter.
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spellingShingle Bulk viscosity of two-color superconducting quark matter in neutron star mergers
Alford, Mark
Harutyunyan, Arus
Sedrakian, Armen
Tsiopelas, Stefanos
Nuclear Theory
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We study the bulk viscosity of moderately hot and dense, neutrino-transparent color superconducting quark matter arising from weak-interaction-driven direct URCA processes. The quark matter is modeled using the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model improved to account for vector and 't Hooft interactions as well as antisymmetric pairing among the red/green up and down quarks. The unpaired excitations are the strange quarks and the blue up or down quarks. We compute the relaxation rates associated with $d$ and $s$-quark decay and electron capture processes on $u$ quark for blue color. The resulting bulk viscosity for density oscillations in the 1--10\,kHz range shows a resonant peak at $T\sim 5\,\MeV$, and the damping time may drop below 10 ms. This is short enough to affect the postmerger evolution and is very similar to the damping predicted in nuclear matter.
title Bulk viscosity of two-color superconducting quark matter in neutron star mergers
topic Nuclear Theory
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12493