https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00008-0
Review
Pairing in pure neutron matter
1
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 600036, Chennai, India
2
Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS-IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France
Received:
19
October
2020
Accepted:
23
December
2020
Published online:
1
April
2021
We review the long standing problem of superfluid pairing in pure neutron matter. For the s-wave pairing, we summarize the state of the art of many-body approaches including different nn interactions, medium polarization, short-range correlations and BCS–BEC crossover effects, and compare them with quantum Monte Carlo results at low densities. We also address pairing in the p-wave, which appears at higher densities and, hence, has large uncertainties due to the poorly constrained interactions, medium effects and many-body forces.
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