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Neutrino-Electron Interactions and Stellar Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

J.A. Campbell*
Affiliation:
School of Physical Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, S.A.

Extract

A large part of the energy lost from interiors of evolving stars at temperatures greater than about 5 × 108°K is carried away by neutrinos. Three neutrino-producing reactions which have been incorporated in various evolutionary models are the photoneutrino process:

direct annihilation of electron-positron pairs:

and the plasma process:

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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1968

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