Non-Fermi liquid corrections to the neutrino mean free path in dense quark matter

Abstract

We calculate the neutrino mean free path with non-Fermi liquid corrections in quark matter from scattering and absorption processes for both degenerate and nondegenerate neutrinos. We show that the mean free path decreases due to the non-Fermi liquid corrections, leading to ${l}_{\mathrm{mean}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}\ensuremath{\sim}[\dots{}+\dots{}{C}_{F}^{2}{\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}^{2}\mathrm{ln}({m}_{D}/T{)}^{2}]$. This reduction results in a higher rate of scattering.