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In the framework of the internal shock scenario, we model the broadband prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with emphasis on the GeV-TeV bands, utilizing Monte Carlo simulations that include various processes associated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Katsuaki Asano , Susumu Inoue

A fraction of gamma-ray bursts exhibit distinct spectral features in their prompt emission below few 10s of keV that exceed simple extrapolations of the low-energy power-law portion of the Band spectral model. This is also true for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Katsuaki Asano , Susumu Inoue , Peter Meszaros

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are widely suggested as potential sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). The kinetic energy of the jets dissipates, leading to the production of an enormous amount of $\gamma$-ray photons and possibly also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 Xing-Fu Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Hai-Ming Zhang , Yi-Yun Huang , B. Theodore Zhang , Xiang-Yu Wang

Some recent experiments detecting very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays above 10-20 TeV independently reported VHE bursts for some of bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). If these signals are truly from GRBs, these GRBs must emit a much larger…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomonori Totani

The high-energy (> 100MeV) emission observed by Fermi-LAT during the prompt phase of some luminous gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) could arise from the cascade induced by interactions between accelerated protons and the radiation field of GRBs. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Kai Wang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Zi-Gao Dai , Katsuaki Asano

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) have been proposed as one {\it possible} class of sources of the Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) events observed up to energies $\gsim10^{20}\ev$. The synchrotron radiation of the highest energy protons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pijushpani Bhattacharjee , Nayantara Gupta

The acceleration site for ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) is still an open question despite extended research. In this paper, we reconsider the prompt phase of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) as a possible candidate for this acceleration and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 Filip Samuelsson , Damien Bégué , Felix Ryde , Asaf Pe'er

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have long been considered as candidates of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). We investigate the signatures of CR proton acceleration in the GRBs by consistently taking into account their hadronic and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 Soebur Razzaque , Charles D. Dermer , Justin D. Finke , Armen Atoyan

The principal paradigm for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) suggests that the prompt transient gamma-ray signal arises from multiple shocks internal to the relativistic expansion. This paper explores how GRB prompt emission spectra can constrain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 Matthew G. Baring

The origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays $($UHECRs$)$ remains a mystery. It has been suggested that UHECRs can be produced by the stochastic acceleration in relativistic jets of gamma-ray bursts $($GRBs$)$ at the early afterglow phase.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Ze-Lin Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

It has recently been proposed that ultrahigh energy ($\gtrsim 10^{19}$ eV) cosmic rays (UHECRs) are accelerated by the blast waves associated with GRBs. We calculate the observed synchrotron radiation spectrum from protons and energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Boettcher , C. D. Dermer

We argue that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) may be the origin of the cosmic gamma-ray background radiation observed in GeV range. It has theoretically been discussed that protons may carry a much larger amount of energy than electrons in GRBs,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomonori Totani

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are sources of energetic, highly variable fluxes of gamma rays, which demonstrates that they are powerful particle accelerators. Besides relativistic electrons, GRBs should also accelerate high-energy hadrons, some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Charles D. Dermer , Armen Atoyan

We review the hypothesis that the acceleration of protons at internal shocks in Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) could be the origin of the ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) observed at earth, E_max > 10^19 eV. We find that, even though protons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Jorg P. Rachen , P. Meszaros

gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are likely sources of ultra-high energy, >10^{19} eV, protons and high energy, >1 TeV, neutrinos. Large volume detectors of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and high energy neutrinos, which are already…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 E. Waxman

The paper is devoted to the analysis of particle acceleration in Gamma-Ray Bursts and its radiative consequences. Therefore we get on one hand constraints on the physics and on the other hand possible signatures of particle acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Denis Gialis , Guy Pelletier

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are generally believed to be efficient particle accelerators. In the presence of energetic protons in a GRB jet, interactions between these protons and intense radiation field of the GRB are supposed to induce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ruo-Yu Liu , Hai-Ming Zhang , Xiang-Yu Wang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have long been held as one of the most promising sources of ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos. The internal shock model of GRB emission posits the joint production of UHE cosmic ray (UHECRs, above 10^8 GeV), photons,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-10 Mauricio Bustamante , Philipp Baerwald , Walter Winter

The suggested association between the sources of gamma-ray bursts (GRB's) and the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR's) is based on two arguments: (i) The average energy generation rate of UHECR's is similar to the gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 E. Waxman

The gamma-ray burst (GRB) model for production of ultra-high-energy cosmic-rays (UHECRs) is based on the hypothesis that GRBs arise from the dissipation of the kinetic energy of relativistic fireballs at cosmological distances. Recent GRB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Waxman
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