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Prompt TeV Emission from Cosmic Rays Accelerated by Gamma Ray Bursts Interacting with Surrounding Stellar Wind
Protons accelerated in the internal shocks of a long duration gamma ray burst
can escape the fireball as cosmic rays by converting to neutrons. Hadronic
interactions of these neutrons inside a stellar wind bubble created by the
progenitor star will produce TeV gamma rays via neutral meson decay and
synchrotron radiation by charged pion-decay electrons in the wind magnetic
field. Such gamma rays should be observable from nearby gamma ray bursts by
currently running and upcoming ground-based detectors.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figure, slightly modified title, figure and other text,
accepted for publication in ApJ Letter