Koers 2007 High-energy nertrinos from GRB

主要内容:
due to meson and muon acceleration.

精彩摘抄:
extending as a single power law up to ~10^3 TeV. This greatly improves the detection prospects.

文章信息:

arXiv:0711.4791 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Enhanced high-energy neutrino emission from choked gamma-ray bursts due to meson and muon acceleration

Authors: Hylke B. J. Koers, Ralph A. M. J. Wijers

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, revtex4

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

It has been suggested that a potentially large fraction of supernovae could be accompanied by relativistic outflows that stall below the stellar surface. In this letter we point out that internal shocks that are believed to accelerate protons to very high energies in these flows will also accelerate secondary mesons and muons. As a result the neutrino spectrum from meson and muon decay is expected to be much harder compared to previous estimates, extending as a single power law up to ~10^3 TeV. This greatly improves the detection prospects.