Estimates of Stellar Weak Interaction Rates for Nuclei in the Mass Range A=65-80

Abstract

We estimate lepton capture and emission rates, as well as neutrino energy loss rates, for nuclei in the mass range A=65-80. These rates are calculated on a temperature/density grid appropriate for a wide range of astrophysical applications including simulations of late time stellar evolution and x-ray bursts. The basic inputs in our single particle and empirically inspired model are i) experimentally measured level and weak decay information, ii) estimates of matrix elements for allowed experimentally-unmeasured transitions based on the systematics of experimentally observed allowed transitions, and iii) estimates of the centroids of the GT resonances motivated by shell model calculations in the fp shell as well as by (n,p) and (p,n) experiments. Transitions involving Fermi resonances (isobaric analog states) are also included and dominate the rates for many interesting proton rich nuclei for which an experimentally-determined ground state lifetime is unavailable. To compare our results with more detailed shell model based calculations we also calculate weak rates for nuclei in the mass range A=60-65 for which Langanke and Martinez-Pinedo have provided rates. The typical deviation in the electron capture and B- decay rates for these ~30 nuclei is less than a factor of two or three for a wide range of temperature and density appropriate for pre-supernova stellar evolution. We also discuss some subtleties associated with the partition functions used in calculations of stellar weak rates and show that the proper treatment of the partition functions is essential for estimating high temperature beta decay rates. Partition functions based on un-converged Lanczos calculations can result in estimates of high temperature beta decay rates that are systematically low.

arXiv commentTables of rates for nuclei in the mass range A=66-110 are available from J. Pruet

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