Issue |
A&A
Volume 558, October 2013
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Article Number | A142 | |
Number of page(s) | 10 | |
Section | Astrophysical processes | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321701 | |
Published online | 23 October 2013 |
Neutrinos from collapsars
1
Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía (IAR, CCT La Plata, CONICET),
C.C.5, (1984) Villa
Elisa
1894
Buenos Aires
Argentina
e-mail:
florenciavieyro@gmail.com
2
Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad
Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del
Bosque s/n, 1900
La Plata,
Argentina
3
Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de
Campinas, 13083-970
Campinas, SP, Brazil
4
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, ICTP,
34010
Trieste,
Italy
Received:
15
April
2013
Accepted:
25
August
2013
Context. Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are associated with the gravitational collapse of very massive stars. The central engine of a GRB can collimate relativistic jets that propagate inside the stellar envelope. The shock waves produced when the jet disrupts the stellar surface are capable of accelerating particles up to very high energies.
Aims. If the jet has hadronic content, neutrinos will be produced via charged pion decays. The main goal of this work is to estimate the neutrino emission produced in the region close to the surface of the star, taking pion and muon cooling into account, along with subtle effects arising from neutrino production in a highly magnetized medium.
Methods. We estimate the maximum energies of the different kinds of particles and solve the coupled transport equations for each species. Once the particle distributions are known, we calculate the intensity of neutrinos. We study the different effects on the neutrinos that can change the relative weight of different flavors. In particular, we consider the effects of neutrino oscillations, and of neutrino spin precession caused by strong magnetic fields.
Results. The expected neutrino signals from the shocks in the uncorking regions of Population III events is very weak, but the neutrino signal produced by Wolf-Rayet GRBs with z < 0.5 is not far from the level of the atmospheric background.
Conclusions. The IceCube experiment does not have the sensitivity to detect neutrinos from the implosion of the earliest stars, but a number of high-energy neutrinos may be detected from nearby long GRBs. The cumulative signal should be detectable over several years (~10 yr) of integration with the full 86-string configuration.
Key words: neutrinos / gamma-ray burst: general / radiation mechanisms: non-thermal
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