Holographic neutrino transport in dense strongly-coupled matter

Abstract

Abstract A (toy) model for cold and luke-warm strongly-coupled nuclear matter at finite baryon density, is used to study neutrino transport. The complete charged current two-point correlators are computed in the strongly-coupled medium and their impact on neutrino transport is analyzed. The full result is compared with various approximations for the current correlators and the distributions, including the degenerate approximation, the hydrodynamic approximation as well as the diffusive approximation and we comment on their successes. Further improvements are discussed.

Keywords

• Holography and Hydrodynamics
• Neutrino Interactions
• Non-Equilibrium Field Theory
• Nonperturbative Effects