High-energy photons from a gamma-ray burst jet can transmute protons in the surrounding stellar envelope into neutrons, potentially enabling neutron-capture nucleosynthesis in the cocoon.
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Let there be neutrons! Hadronic photoproduction from a large flux of high-energy photons
High-energy photons from a gamma-ray burst jet can transmute protons in the surrounding stellar envelope into neutrons, potentially enabling neutron-capture nucleosynthesis in the cocoon.