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arxiv: 2605.24083 · v2 · pith:4ZQK45FPnew · submitted 2026-05-22 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE

Hadronic Processes, Plasma Evolution and Neutrino Emission in Magnetic Towers of Neutron-Star Merger Remnants

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keywords neutron star mergersmagnetic reconnectionhadronic processespair productionneutrino emissionproton-proton collisionsmagnetar remnantsmagnetic towers
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Hadronic proton-proton collisions dominate pair loading and neutrino production in magnetic towers of neutron star merger remnants.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes that purely leptonic pair-loading mechanisms are inefficient in the strongly radiative magnetic towers because of rapid pitch-angle damping and population of low Landau levels. Magnetic reconnection instead accelerates protons to mildly relativistic energies, after which inelastic proton-proton collisions produce pions whose decay chains drive electromagnetic cascades with multiplicity around 4 at 10^15 Gauss. This hadronic channel supplies the bulk of the pairs and channels dissipated magnetic energy into the electron-positron population that can power nonthermal emission farther out. The same process also generates a nonthermal neutrino tail up to hundreds of MeV that is spectrally distinct from the thermal cooling burst and potentially observable from nearby sources.

Core claim

Magnetic reconnection is the viable acceleration channel once current sheets reach collisionless scales. Protons accelerated to gamma greater than or equal to 1.3 undergo inelastic collisions that inject large-pitch-angle pions; neutral-pion decay then initiates gamma to electron-positron cascades with multiplicity approximately 4 at B equals 10^15 G. This route dominates pair loading, channels most dissipated magnetic energy into the pair population, and seeds a nonthermal neutrino spectrum from charged-pion decay extending to about 300 MeV times sigma_p over 5, distinct from thermal emission and detectable within 100 kpc.

What carries the argument

Inelastic proton-proton collisions triggered by magnetic reconnection, which initiate pion-driven electromagnetic cascades for pair production.

If this is right

  • Hadronic cascades supply the perpendicular momentum that leptonic channels cannot maintain.
  • Most dissipated magnetic energy is channeled into the electron-positron population that powers nonthermal emission at larger radii.
  • Charged-pion decay produces a nonthermal neutrino tail up to roughly 300 MeV that is spectrally distinct from the thermal cooling burst.
  • The neutrino signal is detectable from sources within approximately 100 kpc.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Multi-messenger detections combining neutrinos and electromagnetic signals from nearby mergers could constrain the magnetic-field strength and reconnection efficiency inside the towers.
  • The same hadronic loading mechanism may operate in other high-magnetization astrophysical outflows where reconnection occurs in radiative environments.
  • Incorporating hadronic processes into global simulations would allow quantitative predictions for the neutrino fluence and its dependence on magnetization parameter sigma_p.

Load-bearing premise

Current sheets in the towers thin to collisionless scales in this strongly radiative regime, allowing reconnection to accelerate protons to mildly relativistic energies where proton-proton collisions become effective.

What would settle it

Non-detection of a nonthermal neutrino component above the thermal burst in a neutron-star merger event within 100 kpc, or direct evidence that current sheets remain thicker than collisionless scales.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.24083 by Elias R. Most, Jiaxi Wu, Rostom Mbarek.

Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: (Left) Map of temperature, T, and (Right) the out- -of-plane current density normalized to the magnetic field strength Jy/|B| = (∇ × B)y/|B| in the basal region of the tower, with overplotted magnetic field lines. The cyan contour marks the HMNS boundary (ρ ≳ 1011g cm−3 ), and the lime contour marks the magnetic tower region (ρ ≲ 109 g cm−3 ). Narrow current sheets indicate candidate reconnection sites for… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Characteristic timescales versus magnetic field strength B. Over the relevant field range, the inelastic pp timescale, tpp, lies below proton synchrotron, tsyn,p, so hadronic collisions domi￾nate over direct proton radiative losses for small proton pitch angles, αp. At high B, charged-pion synchrotron, tsyn,π± , becomes faster than pion decay, tdecay,π. Once B ≳ BQ, single-photon magnetic conversion is ext… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Upper panel: Calorimetric pair yield per injected proton Ne±/p for different proton γp for B = 1015 and 1016 G. These are upper limits; see text. Lower panel: Lab-frame pion pitch an￾gle sin απ for several pion CM emission angles θ ′ (Appendix F). Increasing beaming at high γp suppresses the effective pair yield relative to the calorimetric estimate. A proton confined long enough to undergo multiple inelas… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Power densities (left axis, erg cm−3 s −1 ) and characteristic photon energies (right axis, eV) versus magnetic field, B, for the main radiative channels. The hadronic chan￾nels (pp → π 0 → 2γ and π ± synchrotron) are normalized as P = k facc UB/tA with facc = 0.1 and k = 0.17; the dotted black line shows the reference facc UB/tA. Electron synchrotron uses the supply-limited fraction fe = me/mp. Proton and… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Binary neutron star mergers can form short-lived magnetar-like remnants whose magnetically dominated polar towers reach $B\sim10^{15}$--$10^{16}\,\mathrm{G}$, but the microphysical composition of these outflows remains poorly understood. Combining tower geometries from GRMHD simulations with an analytic treatment of QED and hadronic processes, we argue that magnetic reconnection is the most viable particle acceleration channel in this strongly radiative regime, where the current sheets thin to collisionless scales. Purely leptonic pair loading -- including resonant inverse Compton scattering of soft photons -- is bottlenecked by rapid pitch-angle damping and the tendency of one-photon magnetic conversion to populate low Landau levels. Once protons reach mildly relativistic energies ($\gamma_p\gtrsim1.3$), however, inelastic proton-proton ($pp$) collisions inject large-pitch-angle pions that drive $\pi^0\to2\gamma\to e^\pm$ cascades with multiplicity $\mathcal{M}_{\rm cas}\simeq4$ at $B=10^{15}\,\mathrm{G}$, supplying the perpendicular momentum the leptonic channel cannot maintain. This hadronic route dominates pair loading and channels most of the dissipated magnetic energy into the $e^\pm$ population that could power the nonthermal emission emerging at larger radii. Charged-pion decay, modulated by $\pi^\pm$ synchrotron cooling, further seeds a nonthermal neutrino tail up to $\sim 300\,(\sigma_p/5)\,\mathrm{MeV}$, spectrally distinct from the thermal cooling burst and detectable from sources within $\sim 100\,\mathrm{kpc}$

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

1 major / 0 minor

Summary. The manuscript argues that in the magnetically dominated polar towers (B∼10^15–10^16 G) of short-lived magnetar-like remnants from binary neutron-star mergers, magnetic reconnection is the dominant acceleration channel; once protons reach γ_p≳1.3, inelastic pp collisions inject large-pitch-angle pions that drive π^0→2γ→e± cascades (M_cas≃4 at 10^15 G), dominating pair loading, channeling dissipated magnetic energy into the e± population, and seeding a nonthermal neutrino tail up to ∼300(σ_p/5) MeV.

Significance. If the hadronic route is shown to operate, the work supplies a concrete microphysical pathway linking GRMHD tower geometries to observable nonthermal emission and a spectrally distinct neutrino signal from sources within ∼100 kpc, while highlighting the limitations of purely leptonic channels under strong radiative and QED constraints.

major comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract (and the analytic treatment of current-sheet evolution): the assertion that current sheets thin to collisionless (skin-depth) scales despite rapid radiative cooling, pair production, and pitch-angle damping at B∼10^15 G is load-bearing for the activation of the pp channel and the claimed dominance of hadronic pair loading, yet no explicit comparison of thinning timescale versus radiative loss length or QED-modified critical Lundquist number is supplied.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful and constructive review. The single major comment identifies a genuine gap in the explicit timescale comparison supporting the current-sheet thinning claim. We address it below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate the requested analysis.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (and the analytic treatment of current-sheet evolution): the assertion that current sheets thin to collisionless (skin-depth) scales despite rapid radiative cooling, pair production, and pitch-angle damping at B∼10^15 G is load-bearing for the activation of the pp channel and the claimed dominance of hadronic pair loading, yet no explicit comparison of thinning timescale versus radiative loss length or QED-modified critical Lundquist number is supplied.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit comparison of the current-sheet thinning timescale against the radiative loss length (and a discussion of any QED modification to the critical Lundquist number) is not supplied in the present manuscript and would strengthen the argument. In the revised version we will add a concise analytic estimate in the current-sheet evolution section (and a corresponding sentence in the abstract) that compares τ_thin ∼ L/v_in to the synchrotron and inverse-Compton loss times at B ∼ 10^15 G, together with a brief note on how one-photon pair production alters the effective Lundquist threshold. This addition will directly support the claim that sheets reach collisionless scales and thereby activate the pp channel. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation combines external GRMHD geometries with standard analytic QED/hadronic cross-sections

full rationale

The paper's central argument—that reconnection in radiative towers allows protons to reach γ_p ≳1.3 where pp collisions dominate pair loading via M_cas ≃4 cascades—rests on imported tower geometries from prior GRMHD runs and textbook cross-sections for inelastic pp, pion decay, and magnetic pair production. No parameter is fitted to a subset of the target observables and then re-labeled as a prediction; no uniqueness theorem or ansatz is smuggled via self-citation; the thinning of current sheets to collisionless scales is stated as a premise rather than derived from the paper's own outputs. The derivation chain therefore remains independent of its conclusions and receives the default non-circularity finding.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

Review performed on abstract only; ledger entries are inferred from stated conditions in the abstract. Full paper likely contains additional parameters from the GRMHD runs.

free parameters (2)
  • M_cas = 4
    Cascade multiplicity stated as ≃4 at B=10^15 G; appears as an output of the analytic treatment.
  • neutrino energy upper limit = 300 MeV
    Stated as ~300 (σ_p/5) MeV; depends on assumed proton energy scale.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Current sheets thin to collisionless scales allowing reconnection
    Invoked to establish reconnection as viable acceleration channel in the radiative regime.
  • domain assumption Protons reach γ_p ≳1.3
    Required threshold for inelastic pp collisions to inject pions with large pitch angles.

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