February 27, 2023 to March 3, 2023
Europe/Moscow timezone

Hyperonic interactions and charge symmetry breaking in neutron stars

Mar 2, 2023, 3:30 PM
20m
Blokhintsev Auditorium, 4th floor

Blokhintsev Auditorium, 4th floor

BLTP, JINR, Dubna

Speaker

Mr Semyon Mikheev (Faculty of Physics. M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Description

Studying of the properties of baryonic interactions is one of the important problems of nuclear physics. Nowadays nucleon-nucleon interaction is studied much better than hyperonic interactions. There are some models of hyperonic interaction, based on experiments with hypernuclei, but substantial uncertainties still remain.

Studying of neutron stars can be promising for understanding the properties of hyperonic interactions. Wide range of extreme conditions is realised inside neutron stars, such as high densities and pressure. Since the structure of neutron stars is similar to the one of the nucleus, the methods from nuclear physics are applicable for neutron stars description, but at high densities there may be additional sensitivity to certain properties of the baryonic interaction.

In recent years there were many important discoveries in neutron stars physics: new neutron stars were observed, masses and radii were measured and the first gravitational signal from neutron stars merger was obtained by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration. Registration of gravitational waves provides us with the new measurable characteristic of neutron stars, called tidal deformability.

In the present work we build a model of neutron star matter consisting of nucleons, leptons, and $\Lambda$-hyperons with the Skyrme baryonic force. Using this model we calculate masses, radii and tidal deformabilities of neutron stars.

We study different properties of $\Lambda N$-interaction and their connection with characteristics of neutron stars. In particular we consider two alternative ways to describe nonlinear effects in $\Lambda N$-interaction: dependence on a nucleon density ($\sim\rho^{\alpha}$) and the three-body $\Lambda NN$ force. This two ways are almost equivalent in hypernuclei, but can lead to different results in neutron stars. We also consider the charge symmetry breaking (CSB) effect in neutron stars and compare results with our calculations for
neutron-rich hypernuclei. Since neutron stars are neutron-rich systems, CSB effect definitely should affect them. Although it is often considered to be insignificant in the $\Lambda N$-interaction, its study can lead to some interesting physical conclusions. Finally, we attempt to find the best combination of Skyrme parametrizations of nucleon-nucleon, nucleon-hyperon and hyperon-hyperon interactions, considering both maximum mass and tidal deformability restrictions.

Primary authors

Mr Artur Nasakin (Faculty of Physics. M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University) Mr Dmitry Lanskoy (SINP MSU) Mr Semyon Mikheev (Faculty of Physics. M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University) Semyon Sidorov (Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov) Tatiana Tretyakova (SINP MSU)

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