[Mesa-users] Sommerfeld enhancement

[Jeremy Sakstein]

Thanks Frank!

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 12:39 PM Francis Timmes <fxt44 at mac.com> wrote:

> the helmeos includes the effects of e+e- production in its
> thermodynamic quantities, with the actual physics coming from
> the eos that builds the helmholtz free energy tables.
>
> that e+e- physics is solved by taking both the fermi-dirac integrals
> and the root find on the electron chemical potential to the limits
> of the arithmetic; no expansions are used or needed.
>
> https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999ApJS..125..277T/abstract
> https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000ApJS..126..501T/abstract
> http://cococubed.asu.edu/code_pages/eos.shtml
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> fxt
>
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> > On Sep 3, 2020, at 1:22 PM, Jeremy Sakstein <sakstein at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I’ve been trying to figure out if Sommerfeld enhancement is included in
> the electron-positron pair production rates but I seem to be failing
> miserably.
> >
> > I think the correct EOS of relevance is HELM.
> >
> > Does anyone know if this is included, possibly with a reference?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jeremy
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