The Search for Muon Neutrinos from Northern Hemisphere Gamma‐Ray Bursts with AMANDA

Achterberg, A.; Ackermann, M.; Adams, J.; Ahrens, J.; Andeen, K.; Auffenberg, J.; Bahcall, John N.; Bai, X.; Baret, B.; Barwick, S. W.; Bay, R.; Beattie, K.; Becka, T.; Becker, J.; Becker, K. H.; Berghaus, P.; Berley, D.; Bernardini, E.; Bertrand, Daniel; Besson, D.; Blaufuss, E.; Boersma, D. J.; Böhm, C.; Bolmont, J.; Böser, S.; Botner, O.; Bouchta, A.; Braun, J.; Burgess, C. P.; Burgess, T.; Castermans, T.; Chirkin, D.; Christy, B.; Clem, J.; Cowen, D. F.; D’Agostino, M. V.; Davour, Anna; Day, C. T.; Clercq, C. De; Demiröres, L.; Descamps, F.; Desiati, P.; DeYoung, T.; Díaz–Vélez, Juan Carlos; Dreyer, J.; Dumm, J.; Duvoort, M. R.; Edwards, W. R.; Ehrlich, R.; Eisch, J.; Ellsworth, R. W.; Evenson, P. A.; Fadiran, O.; Fazely, A. R.; Filimonov, K.; Foerster, M. M.; Fox, B. D.; Franckowiak, A.; Gaisser, T. K.; Gallagher, John S.; Ganugapati, R.; Geenen, H.; Gerhardt, L.; Goldschmidt, A.; Goodman, J. A.; Gozzini, R.; Griesel, T.; Groß, A.; Grullon, S.; Gunasingha, R. M.; Gurtner, M.; Hallgren, A.; Halzen, F.; Han, K.; Hanson, K.; Hardtke, D.; Hardtke, R.; Hart, J. E.; Hasegawa, Y.; Hauschildt, T.; Hays, D.; Heise, J.; Helbing, K.; Hellwig, M.; Herquet, P.; Hill, G. C.; Hodges, J.; Hoffman, K. D.; Hommez, B.; Hoshina, K.; Hubert, D.; Hughey, B.; Hulth, P. O.; Hülß, J.-P.; Hultqvist, K.; Hundertmark, S.; Inaba, M.; Ishihara, A.; Jacobsen, J.; Japaridze, G. S.; Johansson, H.; Jones, Aaron; Joseph, J.; Kampert, K.‐H.; Kappes, A.; Karg, T.; Karle, A.; Kawai, H.; Kelley, J. L.; Kitamura, N.; Klein, S. R.; Klepser, S.; Kohnen, G.; Kolanoski, H.; Köpke, L.; Kowalski, M.; Kowarik, T.; Krasberg, M.; Kuêhn, K.; Labare, M.; Landsman, H.; Leich, H.; Leier, Dominik; Liubarsky, I.; Lundberg, J.; Lünemann, J.; Madsen, J.; Mase, K.; Matis, H. S.; McCauley, T.; McParland, C.; Meli, A.; Messarius, T.; Mészáros, P.; Miyamoto, H.; Mokhtarani, A.; Montaruli, T.; Morey, A.; Morse, R.; Movit, S. M.; Münich, K.; Nahnhauer, R.; Nam, J. W.; Nießen, P.; Nygren, D. R.; Öğelman, H.; Olivas, A.; Patton, S.; Peña-Garay, Carlos; Heros, C. Pérez de los; Piegsa, A.; Pieloth, D.; Pohl, A. C.; Porrata, R.; Pretz, J.; Price, P. B.; Przybylski, G. T.; Rawlins, K.; Razzaque, S.; Resconi, E.; Rhode, W.; Ribordy, M.; Rizzo, A.; Robbins, S.; Roth, Peter M.; Rott, C.; Rutledge, D.; Ryckbosch, D.; Sander, H. G.; Sarkar, S.; Schlenstedt, S.; Schmidt, T.; Schneider, D.; Seckel, D.; Semburg, B.; Seo, S. h.; Seunarine, S.; Silvestri, A.; Smith, A. J.; Solarz, M.; Song, Cui-Ying; Sopher, J.; Spiczak, G. M.; Spiering, C.; Stamatikos, M.; Stanev, T.; Steffen, P.; Stezelberger, T.; Stokstad, R. G.; Stoufer, M. C.; Stoyanov, S.; Strahler, E. A.; Straszheim, T.; Sulanke, K.-H.; Sullivan, G. W.; Sumner, T. J.; Taboada, I.; Tarasova, O.; Tepe, A.; Thollander, L.; Tilav, S.; Tluczykont, M.; Toale, P. A.; Turčan, D.; Eijndhoven, N. van; Vandenbroucke, J.; Overloop, A. Van; Viscomi, V.; Voigt, B.; Wagner, Wolfgang; Walck, C.; Waldmann, H.; Walter, Michael; Wang, Y.-R.; Wendt, C.; Wiebusch, C. H.; Wikstroem, G.; Williams, D. R.; Wischnewski, R.; Wissing, H.; Woschnagg, K.; Xu, X. W.; Yodh, G.; Yoshida, Shigeru; Zornoza, J.D.; Boër, M.; Cline, T. L.; Crew, G. B.; Feroci, M.; Frontera, F.; Hurley, K.; Lamb, D. Q.; Rau, A. R. P.; Rossi, Fabrice; Ricker, G.; Kienlin, A. von

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“…IceCube has not yet observed a neutrino signal associated with GRBs (Abbasi et al 2010b(Abbasi et al , 2012aAartsen et al 2015dAartsen et al , 2016a. These results are consistent with the nondetection in multiple years of analysis by AMANDA (Achterberg et al 2007(Achterberg et al , 2008 and ANTARES (Adrián-Martínez et al 2013a, 2013b. This paper presents a continued search for prompt n n + m m neutrino track events from GRBs with IceCube (Aartsen et al 2015d) in three additional years of data, but introduces two additional components to the analysis: an analysis of each observed GRB individuallyand an extension of the northern n n + m m track event search to the southern hemisphere…”

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confidence: 62%

Extending the Search for Muon Neutrinos Coincident with Gamma-Ray Bursts in IceCube Data

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Ackermann²,

Adams³

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We present an all-sky search for muon neutrinos produced during the prompt γ-ray emission of 1172 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The detection of these neutrinos would constitute evidence for ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray (UHECR) production in GRBs, as interactions between accelerated protons and the prompt γ-ray field would yield charged pions, which decay to neutrinos. A previously reported search for muon neutrino tracks from northern hemisphere GRBs has been extended to include three additional years of IceCube data. A search for such tracks from southern hemisphere GRBs in five years of IceCube data has been introduced to enhance our sensitivity to the highest energy neutrinos. No significant correlation between neutrino events and observed GRBs is seen in the new data. Combining this result with previous muon neutrino track searches and a search for cascade signature events from all neutrino flavors, we obtain new constraints for single-zone fireball models of GRB neutrino and UHECR production.

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Extending the Search for Muon Neutrinos Coincident with Gamma-Ray Bursts in IceCube Data

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Adams³

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“…The authors derived a doubly broken power-law spectrum for the neutrinos. Their model is referred to as the standard Waxman-Bahcall GRB neutrino flux, and is for instance used to set limits with the BAIKAL (Avrorin et al 2011) and AMANDA (Achterberg et al 2008) experiments. Guetta et al (2004) modified the formulae of Waxman and Bahcall to calculate individual neutrino fluxes for the bursts.…”

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“…The detection of neutrinos from GRBs would be unambiguous proof for hadronic acceleration in cosmic sources, and could also serve to explain the origin of the cosmic-ray flux at ultra-high energies (Waxman 1995b). Several limits over a wide range of energies have been placed on the neutrino emission from GRBs, for instance from experiments such as Super-Kamiokande (Fukuda et al 2002), AMANDA (Achterberg et al 2008), Baikal (Avrorin et al 2011), RICE (Besson et al 2007), and ANITA (Vieregg et al 2011). Very-large-volume neutrino telescopes such as ANTARES and IceCube are sensitive to neutrino fluxes above approximately 100 GeV; since they simultaneously observe at least half the sky, they are ideal instruments to search for any high-energy neutrino flux from GRBs.…”

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Search for muon neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts with the ANTARES neutrino telescope using 2008 to 2011 data

Adrián-Martínez¹,

Albert²,

Samarai³

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Aims. We search for muon neutrinos in coincidence with gamma-ray bursts with the ANTARES neutrino detector using data from the end of 2007 to 2011. Methods. Expected neutrino fluxes were calculated for each burst individually. The most recent numerical calculations of the spectra using the NeuCosmA code were employed, which include Monte Carlo simulations of the full underlying photohadronic interaction processes. The discovery probability for a selection of 296 gamma-ray bursts in the given period was optimised using an extended maximum-likelihood strategy. Results. No significant excess over background is found in the data, and 90% confidence level upper limits are placed on the total expected flux according to the model.

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“…Current and feature observations of UHECRs, neutrinos and gamma rays will give us useful information. For example, observations by AMANDA and IceCube have enabled us to constrain the averaged value of f pγ under the GRB-UHECR hypothesis [107,108].…”

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High-energy cosmic-ray nuclei from high- and low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts and implications for multimessenger astronomy

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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are one of the candidates of ultra-high-energy ( 10 18.5 eV) cosmicray (UHECR) sources. We investigate high-energy cosmic-ray acceleration including heavy nuclei in GRBs by using Geant 4, and discuss its various implications, taking both of high-luminosity (HL) and low-luminosity (LL) GRBs into account. This is because LL GRBs may also make a significant contribution to the observed UHECR flux if they form a distinct population. We show that not only protons but also heavier nuclei can be accelerated up to ultra-high energies in the internal, (external) reverse and forward shock models. We also show that the condition for ultra-high-energy heavy nuclei such as iron to survive is almost the same as that for ∼ TeV gamma-rays to escape from the source and for high-energy neutrinos not to be much produced. The multi-messenger astronomy by neutrino and GeV-TeV gamma-ray telescopes such as IceCube and KM3Net, GLAST and MAGIC will be important to see whether GRBs can be accelerators of ultra-high-energy heavy nuclei. We also demonstrate expected spectra of high-energy neutrinos and gamma rays, and discuss their detectabilities. In addition, we discuss implictaions of the GRB-UHECR hypothesis. We point out, since the number densities of HL-GRBs and LL-GRBs are quite different, its detemination by UHECR observations is also important.PACS numbers: 95.85. Ry, 98.70.Rz, 14.60.Lm, 96.50.Pw, 98.70.Sa

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The Search for Muon Neutrinos from Northern Hemisphere Gamma‐Ray Bursts with AMANDA

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Extending the Search for Muon Neutrinos Coincident with Gamma-Ray Bursts in IceCube Data

Extending the Search for Muon Neutrinos Coincident with Gamma-Ray Bursts in IceCube Data

Search for muon neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts with the ANTARES neutrino telescope using 2008 to 2011 data

High-energy cosmic-ray nuclei from high- and low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts and implications for multimessenger astronomy

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