TeV μ neutrinos from young neutron stars -: art. no. 181101

Neutron stars are efficient accelerators for bringing charges up to relativistic energies. We show that if positive ions are accelerated to similar to 1 PeV near the surface of a young neutron star (t(age)less than or similar to 10(5) yr), protons interacting with the star's radiation field produce beamed mu neutrinos with energies of similar to 50 TeV that could produce the brightest neutrino sources at these energies yet proposed. These neutrinos would be coincident with the radio beam, so that, if the star is detected as a radio pulsar, the neutrino beam will sweep the Earth; the star would be a "neutrino pulsar." Looking for nu(mu) emission from young neutron stars will provide a valuable probe of the energetics of the neutron star magnetosphere.