Guetta Dafne, Granot Jonathan
Osservatorio astrofisico di Arcetri, Fermi 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy.
Phys Rev Lett. 2003 May 23;90(20):201103. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.201103. Epub 2003 May 22.
The supranova model for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is becoming increasingly more popular. In this scenario the GRB occurs weeks to years after a supernova explosion, and is located inside a pulsar wind bubble (PWB). Protons accelerated in the internal shocks that emit the GRB may interact with the external PWB photons producing pions which decay into approximately 10(16) eV neutrinos. A km(2) neutrino detector would observe several events per year correlated with the GRBs.