Abstract
The TETFSI (temperature-dependent extended Thomas-Fermi plus Strutinsky integral) method for calculating the properties of the inner crust of neutron stars is here extended in the zero-temperature limit to include proton pairing. The main effect is to smooth out the proton shell effects, although the energetically favored value of Z, the number of protons per Wigner-Seitz cell, remains at, or close to, 40.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 018801 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-4 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics) |
| Volume | 91 |
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| Publication status | Published - 14 Jan 2015 |