Neutron Star Mechanism for Ultra High Energy Neutrinos: Centrifugal Equatorial Confinement and Relativistic Pion-Soup Superradiance

We present a rigorous theoretical framework accounting for the generation of isolated ultra-high-energy (UHE) PeV-scale cosmic neutrinos via relativistic neutron star magnetospheres. Operating near the crust-breaking rotation limit ($\Omega \gtrsim 700\text{ Hz}$), centrifugal forces confine an extreme baryon plasma into a dense equatorial current sheet. Magnetic reconnection drives hard hadronic collisions, generating a transient neutral pion population explicitly derived as $n_{\pi^0} \approx 10^{26}\,\text{cm}^{-3}$ from first-principles rate equations. Relativistic time dilation ($\gamma \sim 10^6$) stabilizes these mesons, permitting stimulated emission ($\alpha \gtrsim 10^2\,\text{cm}^{-1}$) along a frame-dragged geodesic path to form a mirrorless gamma-ray laser precursor. Upon intersecting extreme magnetic gradients near the frame-dragging-modified Light Cylinder ($B \approx B_{\text{crit}}$), this coherent photon needle undergoes loop-level strong-field quantum electrodynamic (SF-QED) electroweak conversion ($\gamma \to \nu\bar{\nu}$) via virtual lepton exchange and neutral weak currents. We derive the complete kinetic master equations, finite optical depths, and predicted IceCube differential flux spectra normalized against observed magnetar giant-flare population statistics, providing a robust physical resolution for transient, single-event PeV neutrino detections. (Note: Preprint — Not yet peer-reviewed.)

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-10-27
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23687212
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Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
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Neutron Star Mechanism for Ultra High Energy Neutrinos: Centrifugal Equatorial Confinement and Relativistic Pion-Soup Superradiance

Tom Collinson
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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
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Neutron Star Mechanism for Ultra High Energy Neutrinos: Centrifugal Equatorial Confinement and Relativistic Pion-Soup Superradiance

Tom Collinson
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Abstract

We present a rigorous theoretical framework accounting for the generation of isolated ultra-high-energy (UHE) PeV-scale cosmic neutrinos via relativistic neutron star magnetospheres. Operating near the crust-breaking rotation limit ($\Omega \gtrsim 700\text{ Hz}$), centrifugal forces confine an extreme baryon plasma into a dense equatorial current sheet. Magnetic reconnection drives hard hadronic collisions, generating a transient neutral pion population explicitly derived as $n_{\pi^0} \approx 10^{26}\,\text{cm}^{-3}$ from first-principles rate equations. Relativistic time dilation ($\gamma \sim 10^6$) stabilizes these mesons, permitting stimulated emission ($\alpha \gtrsim 10^2\,\text{cm}^{-1}$) along a frame-dragged geodesic path to form a mirrorless gamma-ray laser precursor. Upon intersecting extreme magnetic gradients near the frame-dragging-modified Light Cylinder ($B \approx B_{\text{crit}}$), this coherent photon needle undergoes loop-level strong-field quantum electrodynamic (SF-QED) electroweak conversion ($\gamma \to \nu\bar{\nu}$) via virtual lepton exchange and neutral weak currents. We derive the complete kinetic master equations, finite optical depths, and predicted IceCube differential flux spectra normalized against observed magnetar giant-flare population statistics, providing a robust physical resolution for transient, single-event PeV neutrino detections. (Note: Preprint — Not yet peer-reviewed.)

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
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