Search for high-energy neutrinos from bright GRBs with ANTARES

Albert A, Andre M, Anghinolfi M, Anton G, Ardid M, Aubert JJ, Avgitas T, Baret B, Barrios-Marti J, Basa S, Bertin V, Biagi S, Bormuth R, Bourret S, Bouwhuis MC, Bruijn R, Brunner J, Busto J, Capone A, Caramete L, Carr J, Celli S, Chiarusi T, Circella M, Coelho JAB, Coleiro A, Coniglione R, Costantini H, Coyle P, Creusot A, Deschamps A, De Bonis G, Distefano C, Di Palma I, Donzaud C, Dornic D, Drouhin D, Eberl T, El Bojaddaini I, Elsasser D, Enzenhofer A, Felis I, Fusco LA, Galata S, Gay P, Geißelsöder S, Geyer K, Giordano V, Gleixner A, Glotin H, Gregoire T, Gracia-Ruiz R, Graf K, Hallmann S, Van Haren H, Heijboer AJ, Hello Y, Hernandez-Rey JJ, Hößl J, Hofestädt J, Hugon C, Illuminati G, James C, De Jong M, Jongen M, Kadler M, Kalekin O, Katz U, Kießling D, Kouchner A, Kreter M, Kreykenbohm I, Kulikovskiy V, Lachaud C, Lahmann R, Lefevre D, Leonora E, Lotze M, Loucatos S, Marcelin M, Margiotta A, Marinelli A, Martinez-Mora JA, Mathieu A, Mele R, Melis K, Michael T, Migliozzi P, Moussa A, Mueller C, Nezri E, Pavalas GE, Pellegrino C, Perrina C, Piattelli P, Popa V, Pradier T, Quinn L, Racca C, Riccobene GM, Roensch K, Sanchez-Losa A, Saldana M, Salvadori I, Samtleben DFE, Sanguineti M, Sapienza P, Schnabel J, Schussler F, Seitz T, Sieger C, Spurio M, Stolarczyk T, Taiuti M, Tayalati Y, Trovato A, Tselengidou M, Turpin D, Tonnis C, Vallage B, Vallee C, Van Elewyck V, Vivolo D, Vizzocca A, Wagner S, Wilms J, Zornoza JD, Zuniga J (2017)

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2017

Journal

Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS

Book Volume: 469

Pages Range: 906-915

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx902

Abstract

Gamma-ray bursts are thought to be sites of hadronic acceleration, thus neutrinos are expected from the decay of charged particles, produced in p gamma interactions. The methods and results of a search for muon neutrinos in the data of the ANTARES neutrino telescope from four bright GRBs (GRB 080916C, GRB 110918A, GRB 130427A and GRB 130505A) observed between 2008 and 2013 are presented. Two scenarios of the fireball model have been investigated: the internal shock scenario, leading to the production of neutrinos with energies mainly above 100 TeV, and the photospheric scenario, characterized by a low-energy component in neutrino spectra due to the assumption of neutrino production closer to the central engine. Since no neutrino events have been detected in temporal and spatial coincidence with these bursts, upper limits at 90 per cent confidence level on the expected neutrino fluxes are derived. The non-detection allows for directly constraining the bulk Lorentz factor of the jet Gamma and the baryon loading f(p).

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National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Italy (IT) National Institute for Subatomic Physics / Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica (Nikhef) Netherlands (NL) Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université France (FR) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) France (FR) Polytechnic University of Valencia / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain (ES) University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot / Université Paris VII Denis Diderot France (FR) University of València / Universitat de València Spain (ES) Institute of Space Science (ISS) / Institutul de Științe Spațiale Romania (RO) Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Germany (DE) Mohammed First University / Université Mohammed Premier / جامعة محمد الأول Morocco (MA) Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Netherlands (NL) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique France (FR) Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) France (FR) Université de Strasbourg (UDS) France (FR) Mohammed V University (UMVA) / جامعة محمد الخامس‎ Morocco (MA) Côte d'Azur Observatory / Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA) France (FR) Polytechnic University of Catalonia / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) / Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña Spain (ES)

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APA:

Albert, A., Andre, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J.-J.,... Zuniga, J. (2017). Search for high-energy neutrinos from bright GRBs with ANTARES. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469(1), 906-915. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx902

MLA:

Albert, A., et al. "Search for high-energy neutrinos from bright GRBs with ANTARES." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 469.1 (2017): 906-915.

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