Effect of Neutrino Oscillations on the Thermodynamic Properties of Hot Quark Matter

Abstract

The effect of neutrino oscillations on the thermodynamic characteristics of three-flavor hot quark matter in β-equilibrium that is opaque for neutrinos is examined in terms of the local SU(3) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model which also accounts for the ‘t Hooft interaction that leads to quark flavor mixing. The thermodynamic characteristics of quark matter are determined for two temperatures, T = 60 and 100 MeV, with neutrino oscillations taken into account. These results are compared with those obtained without taking neutrino oscillations into account. The calculations show that during cooling of quark matter that is opaque to neutrinos, the energy released per unit of baryon charge is 150 ÷ 350 MeV.