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Shannon Cowell (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Weak Interactions in Nuclear Matter

We have calculated effective one-body Fermi and Gamow-Teller charge-current, and vector and axial-vector neutral-current nuclear matrix elements in nucleon matter at various densities and proton fractions. The correlated states for nucleon matter are obtained by operating on Fermi-gas states by a symmetrized product of pair correlation operators determined from variational calculations with the Argonne v18 and Urbana IX two- and three-nucleon interactions. We have also calculate the matrix elements of the nuclear Hamiltonian in the same correlated basis. These provide relatively mild effective interactions which give the variational energies in the Hartree-Fock approximation. Using these effective operators and interactions, we have calculated the weak interaction rates in cold symmetric nuclear matter using the Tamm-Dancoff Approximation.

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