High-energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from Semi-relativistic Hypernovae

Abstract

The origin of the ultrahigh-energy (UHE) cosmic rays (CRs) from the second knee ($\sim 6\times 10^{17}$eV) above in the CR spectrum is still unknown. Recently, there has been growing evidence that a peculiar type of supernovae, called hypernovae, are associated with sub-energetic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), such as SN1998bw/GRB980425 and SN2003lw/GRB031203. Such hypernovae appear to have high (up to mildly relativistic) velocity ejecta, which may be linked to the sub-energetic GRBs. Assuming a continuous distribution of the kinetic energy of the hypernova ejecta as a function of its velocity $E_k\propto (\Gamma \beta {)}^{-\alpha }$ with $\alpha \sim 2$, we find that 1) the external shock wave produced by the high velocity ejecta of a hypernova can accelerate protons up to energies as high as $10^{19}\mathrm{eV}$; 2) the cosmological hypernova rate is sufficient to account for the energy flux above the second knee; and 3) the steeper spectrum of CRs at these energies can arise in these sources. In addition, hypernovae would also give rise to a faint diffuse UHE neutrino flux, due to $p\gamma$ interactions of the UHE CRs with hypernova optical-UV photons.

Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D, 6 revtex pages, 1 figure

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