Gamma-Ray Bursts: Super-Explosions in the Universe and Related High-Energy Phenomena
Abstract
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The recent progress in studies of gamma-ray bursts, their afterglows, and host galaxies is discussed. The emphasis is given to high-energy phenomena associated with gamma-ray burst explosions: high-energy cosmic rays, neutrinos, gravitational waves. We also show how the relativistic fireball model for GRBs can be used to constrain modern theories of large and infinite extra-dimensions. In particular, in the frame of 5D gravity with the Standard Model localized on 3D brane (Dvali et al. 2000), the very existence of relativistic fireballs of $\sim 10^{53}$ ergs puts the lower bound on the quantum gravity scale $\sim 0.1$ eV.
10 page, plain LATEX, no figures. To be published in Proc. XI Int. School "Particles and Cosmology", Baksan Valley, April 2001
10 page, plain LATEX, no figures. To be published in Proc. XI Int. School "Particles and Cosmology", Baksan Valley, April 2001