Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-01-07
Phil.Trans.Roy.Soc.Lond.A365:1323,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Review, R. Soc. Discussion Meeting on GRBs (To appear in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A)
Scientific paper
10.1098/rsta.2006.1995
The construction of large volume detectors of high energy, >1 TeV, neutrinos is mainly driven by the search for extra-Galactic neutrino sources. The existence of such sources is implied by observations of ultra-high energy, >10^{19} eV, cosmic-rays, the origin of which is a mystery. In this lecture I briefly discuss the expected extra-Galactic neutrino signal and the current state of the experimental efforts. Neutrino emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are likely sources of both high energy protons and neutrinos, is discussed in some detail. The detection of the predicted GRB neutrino signal, which may become possible in the coming few years, will allow one to identify the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic-rays and to resolve open questions related to the underlying physics of GRB models. Moreover, detection of GRB neutrinos will allow one to test for neutrino properties (e.g. flavor oscillations and coupling to gravity) with an accuracy many orders of magnitude better than is currently possible.
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