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Title: Low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts as the sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray nuclei

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D.
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [3]
  1. Peking Univ., Beijing (China). Dept. of Astronomy. School of Physics. Kavli Inst. for Astronomy and Astrophysics; Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  2. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States). Dept. of Physics. Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Center for Particle and Gravitational Astrophysics; Yukawa Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto (Japan). Center for Gravitational Physics
  3. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States). Dept. of Physics. Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Center for Particle and Gravitational Astrophysics
  4. Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States). Dept. of Physics. Center for Neutrino Physics

Recent results from the Pierre Auger Collaboration have shown that the composition of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) becomes gradually heavier with increasing energy. Although gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been promising sources of UHECRs, it is still unclear whether they can account for the Auger results because of their unknown nuclear composition of ejected UHECRs. In this work, we revisit the possibility that low-luminosity GRBs (LL GRBs) act as the sources of UHECR nuclei and give new predictions based on the intrajet nuclear composition models considering progenitor dependencies. We find that the nuclear component in the jet can be divided into two groups according to the mass fraction of silicon nuclei, Si-free and Si-rich. Motivated by the connection between LL GRBs and transrelativistic supernovae, we also consider the hypernova ejecta composition. Then, we discuss the survivability of UHECR nuclei in the jet base and internal shocks of the jets, and show that it is easier for nuclei to survive for typical LL GRBs. Finally, we numerically propagate UHECR nuclei ejected from LL GRBs with different composition models and compare the resulting spectra and composition to Auger data. Our results show that both the Si-rich progenitor and hypernova ejecta models match the Auger data well, while the Si-free progenitor models have more difficulty in fitting the spectrum. We argue that our model is consistent with the newly reported cross-correlation between the UHECRs and starburst galaxies, since both LL GRBs and hypernovae are expected to be tracers of the star-formation activity. LL GRBs have also been suggested as the dominant origin of IceCube neutrinos in the PeV range, and the LL GRB origin of UHECRs can be critically tested by near-future multimessenger observations.

Research Organization:
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0018327; de-sc0018327
OSTI ID:
1541166
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1434347
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D., Vol. 97, Issue 8; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 53 works
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