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Sources of the temperature dependence of rates of nuclear beta processes in matter of massive stars are systematized. Electron and positron beta decays and electron capture (K capture and the capture of unbound electrons) fromexcited nuclear states (thermal decays) are considered along with the photobeta decays from ground and excited nuclear states. The possible quantum degeneracy of an electron gas in matter and the degree of ionization of an atomic K shell in a high-temperature field are taken into account. For a number of multidecay odd-nuclei, the temperature dependences of the ratios of the total rates of their β − decays to the sum of the total rates over all of decay modes for the same nuclei are calculated in the range of nuclear temperature from 2 to 3 × 109 K. It is shown that the deviation of this ratio from the experimental value obtained at “normal” temperature may be quite sizable. This circumstance should be taken into account in models that consider the problem of synthesis of nuclei in matter of massive stars.
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Original Russian Text © I.V. Kopytin, Imad A. Hussain, 2013, published in Yadernaya Fizika, 2013, Vol. 76, No. 11, pp. 1379–1388.
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Kopytin, I.V., Hussain, I.A. Beta processes in a high-temperature field and nuclear multibeta decays. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 76, 1315–1323 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778813110112
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