Speaker
Kelsey Lund
(UC Berkeley)
Description
The remnant black-hole accretion disk system that results from binary neutron star mergers has proven to be a promising site for the synthesis of the heaviest elements through the rapid neutron capture process (r-process). One of the key quantities determining the extent to which these sites are capable of producing a full r-process pattern is the neutron richness of the ejecta, which is heavily influenced by neutrino interactions in the disk during its evolution. We present results from a 3D general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics disk simulations with Monte Carlo neutrino transport, showing the effect neutrino oscillations have on the conditions for r-process nucleosynthesis in the disk.
Authors
Kelsey Lund
(UC Berkeley)
Dr
Payel Mukhopadhyay
Dr
Jonah Miller
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Prof.
Gail McLaughlin
(North Carolina State University)
