High Energy Neutrinos from Cosmological Gamma-Ray Burst Fireballs
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- 30 January 1997
Abstract
Observations suggest that $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by the dissipation of the kinetic energy of a relativistic fireball. We show that a large fraction, $\ge 10%$, of the fireball energy is expected to be converted by photo-meson production to a burst of $\sim10^{14} eV$ neutrinos. A km^2 neutrino detector would observe at least several tens of events per year correlated with GRBs, and test for neutrino properties (e.g. flavor oscillations, for which upward moving $\tau$'s would be a unique signature, and coupling to gravity) with an accuracy many orders of magnitude better than is currently possible.
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- Version 1, 1997-01-30, ArXiv
- Published version: Physical Review Letters, 78 (12), 2292.
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