Short gamma-ray burst prompt jets with Lorentz factors above roughly 400 to 500 can in principle accelerate and preserve r-process nuclei to 100 EeV, and the same survival requirement caps their high-energy neutrino output.
Expected neutrino fluence from short Gamma-Ray Burst 170817A and off-axis angle constraints
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We compute the expected neutrino fluence from SGRB 170817A, associated with the gravitational wave event GW 170817, directly based on Fermi observations in two scenarios: structured jet and off-axis (observed) top-hat jet. While the expected neutrino fluence for the structured jet case is very small, large off-axis angles imply high radiation densities in the jet, which can enhance the neutrino production efficiency. In the most optimistic allowed scenario, the neutrino fluence can reach only $10^{-4}$ of the sensitivity of the neutrino telescopes. We furthermore demonstrate that the fact that gamma-rays can escape limits the baryonic loading (energy in protons versus photons) and the off-axis angle for the internal shock scenario. In particular, for a baryonic loading of ten, the off-axis angle is more strongly constrained by the baryonic loading than by the time delay between the gravitational wave event and the onset of the gamma-ray emission.
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Short gamma-ray burst prompt jets with Lorentz factors above roughly 400 to 500 can in principle accelerate and preserve r-process nuclei to 100 EeV, and the same survival requirement caps their high-energy neutrino output.