Nuclear pasta in hot dense matter and its implications for neutrino scattering
Nuclear pasta in hot dense matter and its implications for neutrino scattering
The abundance of large clusters of nucleons in neutron-rich matter at subnuclear density is found to be greatly reduced by finite-temperature effects when matter is close to $\ensuremath{\beta}$ equilibrium, compared to the case where the electron fraction is fixed at ${Y}_{e}>0.1$, as often considered in the literature. Large nuclei and …