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Gamma-Rays and Neutrinos from Proton-Proton Interactions in Gamma-Ray Bursts

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Expansion of relativistic outflows of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) into medium created by the winds or their progenitor stars is accompanied by interactions of picked-up protons with the medium. These interactions produce neutrinos and γ-rays with energies in the TeV-PeV range. We study if such neutrinos and γ‑rays are detectable with neutrino and γ-ray telescopes. We find that neutrino signal can be detectable with IceCube-Gen2 type telescope(s) if the GRB progenitor has been a low-metallicity star with initial mass (40‒100)\({{M}_{ \odot }}\), or if the progenitor system has been a binary with dense circumstellar environment (~1013 cm–3) within the binary system extent. γ-ray emission from pion decays is detectable only in the afterglow phase, because of the pair production opacity of the prompt emission. This emission can contribute to the TeV afterglow flux of GRBs. Detection of the pion decay γ-ray and neutrino emission can serve as a diagnostic of the GRB progenitor evolution during the last years of its life.

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  1. We use the system of units with the speed of light c = 1.

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This work is supported by the Ministry of science and higher education of Russian Federation under the contract 075-15-2020-778 in the framework of the Large scientific projects program within the national project “Science.”

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Neronov, A., Gatelet, Y. Gamma-Rays and Neutrinos from Proton-Proton Interactions in Gamma-Ray Bursts. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 133, 305–312 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776121090028

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