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UHE Leptons and Neutrons feeding Precessing gamma Jet in GRBs - SGRs: A SGR 1806-20 link to EeV C.R.?

Abstract

Soft Gamma Repeaters are widely believed to occur as isotropic Magnetar explosion. We suggest on the contrary that they may be described by thin collimated spinning and precessing Gamma Jets flashing and blazing along the line of sight. The Jet (for SGRs) maybe powered by an accretion disk in binary system and it reproduces huge outflow and oscillating blazing mode as the observed ones in Giant Flare SGR 1806-20. The precessing and spinning blazing nature reflects at smaller intensity the same behavior observed in brief GRBs Jetted Supernova, as well as re-brightening and bumps in afterglows. The SGR gamma beam maybe powered by Inverse Compton Scattering or by Synchrotron Radiation of electron pair beam respectively at GeVs or PeVs energies. In the latter case tens PeVs leptons (muons and later decaying PeVs electrons) might be originated while EeV nucleons Jets (protons-neutrons) are in photo-pion equilibrium with infrared photons surrounding the source. The neutron Jet might survive and remain collimated. It maybe already detected as an EeV cosmic ray anisotropy in present AGASA map pointing toward known (North Hemisphere) SGRs : SGR 1900 +14 and SGR 1806-20. If the SGR-EeV connection is correct a parasite traces of PeVs neutrino as well PeV-TeVs gamma rays might be found in present or future data records, among the others C.R. array detectors, inside the Amanda and Milagro volumes.

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D. Fargion, M. Grossi. 2005-05-09. UHE Leptons and Neutrons feeding Precessing gamma Jet in GRBs - SGRs: A SGR 1806-20 link to EeV C.R.?. https://doi.org/10.1393/ncc%2Fi2005-10159-4

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