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add neutrino losses to aprox13

Open zingale opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

This comes out of discussions with Sam Jones, Aron Michel, and @carlnotsagan

We should implement the neutrino losses from the weak reactions. This would mean keeping track of each reaction and what the actual Q value is (subtracting neutrino losses), and evolving an enuc equation that used these Q values.

From Sam:

I think we estimated the neutrino energy losses, and even though they were smaller than 
I had expected, I agree that they're still important.
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The way I would implement it would be to introduce the Q value (binding energy difference 
between products and reactants) for each reaction, and additionally a Q_neu for the weak 
reactions, which is the average neutrino energy per reaction, Q_neu = eps_neu/lambda, 
where eps_neu and lambda are the neutrino luminosity [MeV/s] and the rate [/s] from the 
LMP tables, respectively. Q_neu is of course 0 for the reactions involving the strong 
nuclear force. Then the energy generation is the sum of the number of times a reaction 
takes place multiplied by (Q-Qneu).

zingale avatar Sep 01 '17 18:09 zingale

Note: for aprox19 and aprox21, the original nets from Frank had routines for estimating the neutrino losses from pp and CNO (snupp and snucno) but they seem to have never been called.

zingale avatar Aug 06 '20 13:08 zingale

I think that we can do this easily with the new templated rate infrastructure

zingale avatar Oct 28 '21 14:10 zingale