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Neutrino afterglow from Gamma-Ray Bursts: ~10^{18} eV

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-04-06 v2 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We show that a significant fraction of the energy of a gamma-ray burst(GRB) is probably converted to a burst of 10^{17}-10^{19} eV neutrinos and multiple GeV gammas that follow the GRB by > 10 s . If, as previously suggested, GRB's accelerate protons to ~10^{20} eV, then both the neutrinos and the gammas may be detectable.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9909286,
  title  = {Neutrino afterglow from Gamma-Ray Bursts: ~10^{18} eV},
  author = {Eli Waxman and John Bahcall},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9909286},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

Accepted ApJ; added sentence re: sterile neutrinos; related material at http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb