AN ALL-SKY SEARCH FOR THREE FLAVORS OF NEUTRINOS FROM GAMMA-RAY BURSTS WITH THE ICECUBE NEUTRINO OBSERVATORYShow others and affiliations
Number of Authors: 3162016 (English)In: Astrophysical Journal, ISSN 0004-637X, E-ISSN 1538-4357, Vol. 824, no 2, article id 115Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
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.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2016. Vol. 824, no 2, article id 115
Keywords [en]
gamma-ray burst: general, methods: data analysis, neutrinos, telescopes
National Category
Physical Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-134177DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/824/2/115ISI: 000381912800051Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84978301509OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-134177DiVA, id: diva2:1040734
2016-10-282016-10-032022-10-17Bibliographically approved