Zeeman energy in nucleosynthesis at strong magnetization in supernovae

Kondratyev, V. N.

doi:10.1093/mnras/sty2248

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“…Indirectly, however, the field influences the nucleosynthesis by changing the dynamics and consequently the density and temperature. However, for extreme conditions with magnetic field strength of 10 15 G, the magnetic field can also directly influence the binding energies of the nuclei and therefore the composition (Kondratyev, 2018(Kondratyev, , 2019. The necessary large magnetic field strength may be found in the center of a strongly magnetized CC-SNe (e.g., Mösta et al, 2015;Obergaulinger & Aloy, 2017), accompanied with high temperatures and densities.…”

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Nucleosynthesis in Jet-Driven and Jet-Associated Supernovae

Obergaulinger¹,

Reichert²

2022

Handbook of Nuclear Physics

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In contrast to regular core-collapse supernovae, explosions of rapidly rotating massive stars can develop jets, fast collimated outflows directed along the rotational axis. Depending on the rate of rotation and the magnetic field strength before collapse as well as on possible mechanisms amplifying the magnetic field, such a core can explode magnetorotationally rather than via the standard supernova mechanism based on neutrino heating. This scenario can explain the highest kinetic energies observed in the class of hypernovae. On longer time scales, rotation and magnetic fields can play an important role in the engine of long gamma-ray burst powered by proto-magnetars or hyperaccreting black holes in collapsars. Both classes of events are characterized by relativistic jets and winds driven by neutrinos or magnetic spin-down of the central objects. The nucleosynthesis in these events includes the production of Fe group elements, including a possibly enhanced synthesis of radioactive 56 Ni leading to high peak luminosities. Additionally, these events are, out of all stellar core-collapse events the ones most likely to allow for the formation of the heaviest nuclei via rapid neutron captures. Increasingly sophisticated numerical simulations indicate that at least a limited r-process is possible, though it remains open how robust this result is against variations in the numerical methods and the initial conditions. If so, supernovae with jets could contribute to the observed galactic chemical enrichment, in particular at early times before neutron-star mergers might be able to set in.

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