Abstract
We present the results and methodology of a search for neutrinos produced in the decay of charged pions created in interactions between protons and gamma-rays during the prompt emission of 807 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) over the entire sky. This three-year search is the first in IceCube for shower-like Cherenkov light patterns from electron, muon, and tau neutrinos correlated with GRBs. We detect five low-significance events correlated with five GRBs. These events are consistent with the background expectation from atmospheric muons and neutrinos. The results of this search in combination with those of IceCube's four years of searches for track-like Cherenkov light patterns from muon neutrinos correlated with Northern-Hemisphere GRBs produce limits that tightly constrain current models of neutrino and ultra high energy cosmic ray production in GRB fireballs.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 115 |
| Journal | Astrophysical Journal |
| Volume | 824 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 20 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
We acknowledge the support from the following agencies: the U.S. National Science Foundation-Office of Polar Programs, the U.S. National Science Foundation-Physics Division, the University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the Grid Laboratory Of Wisconsin (GLOW) grid infrastructure at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Open Science Grid (OSG) grid infrastructure; the U.S. Department of Energy, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (Loni) grid computing resources; the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, WestGrid and Compute/Calcul Canada; the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC), and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP), the Research Department of Plasmas with Complex Interactions (Bochum), Germany; the Fund for Scientific Research (FNRSFWO), the FWO Odysseus programme, Flanders Institute to encourage scientific and technological research in industry (IWT), the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Belspo); University of Oxford, United Kingdom; the Marsden Fund, New Zealand; the Australian Research Council; the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS); the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland; the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); and the Danish National Research Foundation, Denmark (DNRF).
Keywords
- gamma-ray burst: general
- methods: data analysis
- neutrinos
- telescopes