Pulsars Covered by the Dense Envelopes as High-Energy Neutrino Sources
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- 1 August 1977
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Progress of Theoretical Physics
- Vol. 58 (2), 549-559
- https://doi.org/10.1143/PTP.58.549
Abstract
A newly-born pulsar is covered by the expanding dense envelope, and high-energy charged particles accelerated near the pulsar are effectively converted into high-energy neutrinos with energies of 1013 ∼1014 eV through meson production and its decay. Such a opaque phase continues for a couple of months. This model was first proposed by Berezinsky, but we will show that his flux estimation is too high by a factor of ∼105. This reduction is needed because the particle flux is limited by the accompanying phenomena such as the source power of high-energy cosmic rays and the light element production rate by spallation nuclear reaction.Keywords
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