[151.01] High-Energy Neutrinos from Leptonic Processes in GRBs.

AAS 207th Meeting, 8-12 January 2006
Session 151 GRB: Theory, X-rays, and Catalogs
Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, January 11, 2006, Wilson A/B

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[151.01] High-Energy Neutrinos from Leptonic Processes in GRBs.

K.V. Sapogin, T.W. Jones (University of Minnesota)

We investigate the leptonic mechanisms of production of high-energy neutrinos in GRBs. Specifically, we focus on the elastic up-scattering of background neutrinos by relativistic electrons. Since this channel does not involve protons, the limit based on the observed flux of high-energy cosmic rays (the Waxman-Bahcall limit) theoretically can be evaded. We discuss the results and applications to the GRB fireball model.

This work is supported in part by NASA grant NNG05GF57G and by the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute.

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