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add neutrino losses to aprox13
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.
...
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).
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.
I think that we can do this easily with the new templated rate infrastructure