Collapse of a neutron gas in a strong magnetic field.

Authors :: Martı´nez, A. Pe´rez
Rojas, H. Pe´rez
Source :: AIP Conference Proceedings. 2001, Vol. 566 Issue 1, p377. 4p. 1 Graph.
Publication Year :: 2001
Abstract: We study the magnetic properties of a degenerate neutron gas in equilibrium with a background of electrons and protons. The effective mass of one branch of the neutron spectrum become massless for magnetic fields B ∼ 10[sup 20] G. At fields near and below that order, the neutron gas experiences a transverse magnetic collapse similar to the one described in paper Phys. Rev. Lett. 84,(2000), 5261 for the electron gas. We conjecture this collapse would provide a mechanism for production of highly energetic particles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]