Nucleosynthesis in gamma-ray bursts outflows

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2002-05-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0205093v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, v2: minor modifications, to appear in A&A Letters

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20020939

It is shown that fusion of neutrons and protons to He-4 nuclei occurs in gamma-ray burst outflows in a process similar to big-bang nucleosynthesis in the early Universe. Only the surviving free neutrons can then decouple kinematically from the charged fluid so that the multi-GeV neutrino signal predicted from inelastic nuclear n-p collisions is significantly reduced. It is also argued that a sizeable fraction of ultra-high energy cosmic rays accelerated in gamma-ray bursts should be He-4 nuclei.

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