The rp-Process in Neutrino-driven Winds

Abstract

Recent hydrodynamic simulations of core-collapse supernovae with accurate neutrino transport suggest that the bulk of the early neutrino-heated ejecta is proton rich, in which the production of some interesting proton-rich nuclei is expected. As suggested in recent nucleosynthesis studies, the rapid proton-capture (rp) process takes place in such proton-rich environments by bypassing the waiting point nuclei with the beta-lives of a few minutes via the faster capture of neutrons continuously supplied from the neutrino absorption by protons. In this study, the nucleosynthesis calculations are performed with the wide ranges of the neutrino luminosities and the electron fractions (Ye), using the semi-analytic models of proto-neutron star winds. The masses of proto-neutron stars are taken to be 1.4 Msolar and 2.0 Msolar, where the latter is regarded as the test for somewhat high entropy winds (about a factor of two). For Ye > 0.52, the neutrino-induced rp-process takes place in many wind trajectories, and the p-nuclei up to A ~ 130 are synthesized with interesting amounts. However, 92Mo is somewhat underproduced compared to those with similar mass numbers. For 0.46 < Ye < 0.49, on the other hand, 92Mo is significantly enhanced by the nuclear flows in the vicinity of the abundant 90Zr that originates from the alpha-process at higher temperature. The nucleosynthetic yields are averaged over the ejected masses of winds, and further the Ye distribution predicted by the recent hydrodynamic simulation of a core-collapse supernova. Comparison of the mass-Ye-averaged yields to the solar compositions implies that the neutrino-driven winds can be potentially the origin of light p-nuclei up to A ~ 110, including 92,94Mo and 96,98Ru that cannot be explained by other astrophysical sites.

29 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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