Neutrino Emission due to Cooper Pair Breaking and Formation (PBF): Clarification

One of the conclusions of my talk during the workshop was that the PBF rate in the vector channel is highly suppressed by a factor of V_F^4 (about 10_as described in the paper by Leinson and Perez (2006). Sedrakian and collaborators have revisted the problem. They also find the rate is suppressed relative to the calculation by Flowers, Sutherland and Ruderman by a factor of about 4 *10^-3 at densities of relevance to the crust.