{"id":200330,"date":"2024-11-28T03:32:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T09:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/improved-spin-and-density-correlation-simulations-give-researchers-clearer-insights-on-neutron-stars"},"modified":"2024-11-28T03:32:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T09:32:23","slug":"improved-spin-and-density-correlation-simulations-give-researchers-clearer-insights-on-neutron-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/improved-spin-and-density-correlation-simulations-give-researchers-clearer-insights-on-neutron-stars","title":{"rendered":"Improved spin and density correlation simulations give researchers clearer insights on neutron stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/improved-spin-and-density-correlation-simulations-give-researchers-clearer-insights-on-neutron-stars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a star dies in a supernova, one possible outcome is for the remains to become a neutron star. Inside a neutron star, the protons and electrons combine into uncharged neutrons. This substance is called neutron matter.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from the United States, China, Turkey, and Germany has performed <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ab+initio\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ab initio<\/a> (i.e., from the most fundamental principles) simulations to calculate spin and density correlations in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/neutron\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neutron<\/a> matter. They used realistic nuclear interactions at higher densities of neutrons than previously explored. Spin and density are the probability of finding a neutron in a particular position with a particular direction of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/spin\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">spin<\/a>. These correlations determine key aspects of how neutrinos scatter and heat up in a core-collapse supernova.<\/p>\n<p>The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.132.232502\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a star dies in a supernova, one possible outcome is for the remains to become a neutron star. Inside a neutron star, the protons and electrons combine into uncharged neutrons. This substance is called neutron matter. A team of researchers from the United States, China, Turkey, and Germany has performed ab initio (i.e., from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}