Published September 2021 | Version v1
Journal article

Pre-burst neutrinos of gamma-ray bursters accompanied by high-energy photons

  • 1. School of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)
  • 2. Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China)
  • 3. Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)

Description

Previous researches on high-energy neutrino events from gamma-ray bursters (GRBs) suggest a neutrino speed variation v(E)=c(1±E/ELVν) with ELVν=(6.4±1.5)×1017 GeV, together with an intrinsic time difference Δtin=(2.8±0.7)×102 s, which means that high-energy neutrinos come out about 300 s earlier than low-energy photons in the source reference system. Considering the possibility that pre-bursts of neutrinos may be accompanied by high-energy photons, in this work we search for high-energy photon events with earlier emission time from 100 to 1000 s before low-energy photons at source by analyzing Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST) data. We perform the searching of photon events with energies larger than 100 MeV, and find 14 events from 48 GRBs with known redshifts. Combining these events with a 1.07TeV photon event observed by the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov telescopes (MAGIC), we suggest a pre-burst stage with a long duration period of several minutes of high energy neutrino emissions accompanied by high energy photons at the GRB source.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136546

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136546;
PII
S037026932100486X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
820
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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Copyright (c) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.