Neutrino‐driven Jets and Rapid‐Process Nucleosynthesis

Abstract

We have studied whether the jet in a collapse-driven supernova can be a key process for the rapid-process (r-process) nucleosynthesis. We have examined the features of a steady, subsonic, and rigidly rotating jet in which the centrifugal force is balanced by the magnetic force. As for the models in which the magnetic field is weak and angular velocity is small, we found that the r-process does not occur because the final temperature is kept to be too high and the dynamical timescale becomes too long when the neutrino luminosities are set to be high. Even if the luminosities of the neutrinos are set to be low, which results in the low final temperature, we found that the models do not give a required condition to produce the r-process matter. Furthermore, the amount of the mass outflow seems to be too little to explain the solar-system abundance ratio in such low-luminosity models. As for the models in which the magnetic field is strong and angular velocity is large, we found that the entropy per baryon becomes too small and the dynamical timescale becomes too long. This tendency is, of course, a bad one for the production of the r-process nuclei. As a conclusion, we have to say that it is difficult to cause a successful r-process nucleosynthesis in the jet models in this study.