Mainak Mukhopadhyay

High-energy neutrinos from shocked circumnuclear material around optically-bright and infrared-only tidal disruption events

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) can launch sub-relativistic outflows that drive shocks into the surrounding circumnuclear material (CNM), providing a natural site for cosmic ray (CR) acceleration and high-energy neutrino production through hadronuclear ($pp$) interactions. We model this emission for optically bright and...