M. Baldo, U. Lombardo, È. E. Sapershtein, S. V. Tolokonnikov, “Effect of superfluidity on the structure of the inner crust of neutron stars”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2004, Volume 80, Issue 8,Pages <nobr>595

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GRAVITY, ASTROPHYSICS

Effect of superfluidity on the structure of the inner crust of neutron stars

M. Baldo^a, U. Lombardo^ab, È. E. Sapershtein^c, S. V. Tolokonnikov^c

^a National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Sezione di Catania, Italy
^b Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy
^c Russian Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow

Abstract: A self-consistent, completely quantum calculation of the structure of the inner crust of neutron stars is carried out in the Wigner-Seitz approximation with a realistic phenomenological nuclear energy functional, where pair correlations of neutrons and protons are included in the explicit form. It has been shown that the superfluidity of neutrons and protons affects the structure of the ground state of the crust.

PACS: 21.60.-n, 21.65.+f, 26.60.+c

Received: 04.08.2004
Revised: 13.09.2004