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Hyper-accreting black hole as GRB central engine. I: Baryon loading in GRB jets
A hyper-accreting stellar-mass black hole has been long speculated as the
best candidate of central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Recent rich
observations of GRBs by space missions such as Swift and Fermi pose new
constraints on GRB central engine models. In this paper, we study the baryon
loading processes of a GRB jet launched from a black hole central engine. We
consider a relativistic jet powered by -annihilation or by the
Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism. We consider baryon loading from a
neutrino-driven wind from a neutrino-cooling-dominated accretion flow. For a
magnetically dominated BZ jet, we consider neutron-drifting from the magnetic
wall surrounding the jet and subsequent positron capture and proton-neutron
inelastic collisions. The minumim baryon loads in both types of jet are
calculated. We find that in both cases, a more luminous jet tends to be more
baryon poor. A neutrino-driven "fireball" is typically "dirtier" than a
magnetically dominated jet, while a magnetically dominated jet can be much
cleaner. Both models have the right scaling to interpret the empirical
relation discovered recently. Since some neutrino-driven
jets have too much baryon loading as compared with the data, we suggest that at
least a good fraction of GRBs should have a magnetically dominated central
engine.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures; Accepted for publication in Ap
Constructing an overall dynamical model for a system with changing design parameter properties
This study considers the identification problem for a class of non-linear parameter-varying systems associated with the following scenario: the system behaviour depends on some specifically prescribed parameter properties, which are adjustable. To understand the effect of the varying parameters, several different experiments, corresponding to different parameter properties, are carried out and different data sets are collected. The objective is to find, from the available data sets, a common parameter-dependent model structure that best fits the adjustable parameter properties for the underlying system. An efficient Common Model Structure Selection (CMSS) algorithm, called the Extended Forward Orthogonal Regression (EFOR) algorithm, is proposed to select such a common model structure. Two examples are presented to illustrate the application and the effectiveness of the new identification approach
Triangle singularity in the decays
We study the reaction and
find that the mechanism to produce this decay develops a triangle singularity
around ~MeV. The differential width
shows a rapid growth around the
invariant mass being 1515~MeV as a consequence of the triangle singularity of
this mechanism, which is directly tied to the nature of the and
as dynamically generated resonances from the interaction of
pseudoscalar mesons. The branching ratios obtained for the decays are of the order of , accessible in
present facilities, and we argue that their observation should provide relevant
information concerning the nature of the low-lying scalar mesons.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, published in EPJ
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