paper

High Energy Neutrinos from Cosmological Gamma-Ray Burst Fireballs

arXiv:astro-ph/9701231 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.2292

Abstract

Observations suggest that -ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by the dissipation of the kinetic energy of a relativistic fireball. We show that a large fraction, , of the fireball energy is expected to be converted by photo-meson production to a burst of 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 '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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