Cooling of Accelerated Nucleons and Neutrino Emission in Gamma‐Ray Bursts
Author(s) -
Katsuaki Asano
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the astrophysical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.376
H-Index - 489
eISSN - 1538-4357
pISSN - 0004-637X
DOI - 10.1086/428876
Subject(s) - physics , neutrino , fermi gamma ray space telescope , nuclear physics , nucleon , gamma ray burst , monte carlo method , gamma ray , synchrotron , astrophysics , fiducial marker , production (economics) , statistics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science , economics , macroeconomics
Using Monte Carlo simulations, we demonstrate photopion production fromFermi-accelerated protons and the resulting neutrino production in gamma-raybursts. Unless internal shocks occur at quite large distance from the center,ultra high-energy protons are depleted by photopion production and synchrotronradiation. Internal shocks at fiducial distance cause neutrino bursts, whichaccompany gamma-ray bursts originating from electromagnetic cascades.Comment: 20 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ 624, #
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