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Multi-GeV Neutrino Emission from Magnetized Gamma Ray Bursts

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2012-06-06 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We investigate the expected neutrino emissivity from nuclear collisions in magnetically dominated collisional models of gamma-ray bursts, motivated by recent observational and theoretical developments. The results indicate that significant multi-GeV neutrino fluxes are expected for model parameter values which are typical of electromagnetically detected bursts. We show that for detecting at least one muon event in Icecube and its Deep Core sub-array, a single burst must be near the high end of the luminosity function and at a redshift z0.2z\lesssim 0.2. We also calculate the luminosity and distance ranges that can generate 0.0110.01-1 muon events per GRB in the same detectors, which may be of interest if simultaneously detected electromagnetically, or if measured with future extensions of Icecube or other neutrino detectors with larger effective volume and better sensitivity.

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@article{arxiv.1112.5664,
  title  = {Multi-GeV Neutrino Emission from Magnetized Gamma Ray Bursts},
  author = {Shan Gao and Peter Meszaros},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5664},
  year   = {2012}
}

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12 pages, 7 figures, accepted version for Phys.Rev.D