Non-Fermi liquid corrections to the neutrino mean free path in dense quark matter

Abstract

We calculate the neutrino mean free path with non-Fermi liquid (NFL) corrections in quark matter from scattering and absorption processes for both degenerate and nondegenerate neutrinos. We show that the mean free path decreases due to the non-Fermi liquid corrections leading to $l_{mean}^{-1}\sim [......+....C_F^2{\alpha }_s^2\ln (m_D/T{)}^2]$. These reduction results in higher rate of scattering.

Comments: 12 pages, 2 eps figures, published in PRD