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Neutrino Oscillation in Magnetized Gamma-Ray Burst Fireball

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-01 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Neutrinos of energy about 5-20 MeV are produced due to the stellar collapse or merger events that trigger the Gamma-Ray Burst. Also low energy MeV neutrinos are produced within the fireball due to electron positron annihilation and nucleonic bremsstrahlung. Many of these neutrinos will propagate through the dense and relativistic magnetized plasma of the fireball. We have studied the possibility of resonant oscillation of νeνμ,τ\nu_e\leftrightarrow \nu_{\mu,\tau} by taking into account the neutrino oscillation parameters from SNO, SuperKamiokande and Liquid Scintillator Detector. Using the resonance condition we have calculated the resonance length for these neutrinos and also the fireball observables like lepton asymmetry and the baryon load are estimated based on the assumed fireball radius of 100 Km.

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@article{arxiv.0904.0138,
  title  = {Neutrino Oscillation in Magnetized Gamma-Ray Burst Fireball},
  author = {Sarira Sahu and Nissim Fraija and Yong-Yeon Keum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.0138},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Revtex 11 pages, 3 figures, Added references and revised version