SEARCH FOR NEUTRINOS FROM GRB 080319B AT SUPER-KAMIOKANDE

doi:10.1088/0004-637X/697/1/730

SEARCH FOR NEUTRINOS FROM GRB 080319B AT SUPER-KAMIOKANDE

E. Thrane et al 2009 ApJ 697 730-734 doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/697/1/730

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E. Thrane¹, K. Abe², Y. Hayato^2,3, T. Iida², M. Ikeda², J. Kameda², K. Kobayashi², Y. Koshio^2,3, M. Miura², S. Moriyama^2,3, M. Nakahata^2,3, S. Nakayama², Y. Obayashi², H. Ogawa², H. Sekiya^2,3, M. Shiozawa^2,3, Y. Suzuki^2,3, A. Takeda², Y. Takenaga², Y. Takeuchi^2,3, K. Ueno², K. Ueshima², H. Watanabe², S. Yamada², M. R. Vagins^3,7, S. Hazama⁴, I. Higuchi⁴, C. Ishihara⁴, T. Kajita^4,3, K. Kaneyuki^4,3, G. Mitsuka⁴, H. Nishino⁴, K. Okumura⁴, N. Tanimoto⁴, F. Dufour⁵, E. Kearns^5,3, M. Litos⁵, J. L. Raaf⁵, J. L. Stone^5,3, L. R. Sulak⁵, M. Goldhaber⁶, K. Bays⁷, D. Casper⁷, J. P. Cravens⁷, W. R. Kropp⁷, S. Mine⁷, C. Regis⁷, M. B. Smy^7,3, H. W. Sobel^7,3, K. S. Ganezer⁸, J. Hill⁸, W. E. Keig⁸, J. S. Jang⁹, I. S. Jeong⁹, J. Y. Kim⁹, I. T. Lim⁹, M. Fechner¹⁰, K. Scholberg^10,3, C. W. Walter^10,3, R. Wendell¹⁰, S. Tasaka¹¹, J. G. Learned¹², S. Matsuno¹², Y. Watanabe¹³, T. Hasegawa¹⁴, T. Ishida¹⁴, T. Ishii¹⁴, T. Kobayashi¹⁴, T. Nakadaira¹⁴, K. Nakamura^14,3, K. Nishikawa¹⁴, Y. Oyama¹⁴, K. Sakashita¹⁴, T. Sekiguchi¹⁴, T. Tsukamoto¹⁴, A. T. Suzuki¹⁵, A. K. Ichikawa¹⁶, A. Minamino¹⁶, T. Nakaya^16,3, M. Yokoyama¹⁶, S. Dazeley¹⁷, R. Svoboda¹⁸, A. Habig¹⁹, Y. Fukuda²⁰, Y. Itow²¹, T. Tanaka²¹, C. K. Jung²², G. Lopez²², C. McGrew²², C. Yanagisawa²², N. Tamura²³, Y. Idehara²⁴, H. Ishino²⁴, A. Kibayashi²⁴, M. Sakuda²⁴, Y. Kuno²⁵, M. Yoshida²⁵, S. B. Kim²⁶, B. S. Yang²⁶, T. Ishizuka²⁷, H. Okazawa²⁸, Y. Choi²⁹, H. K. Seo^1,31, Y. Furuse³⁰, K. Nishijima³⁰, Y. Yokosawa³⁰, M. Koshiba³¹, Y. Totsuka³¹, S. Chen³², G. Gong³², Y. Heng³², T. Xue³², Z. Yang³², H. Zhang³², D. Kielczewska³³, P. Mijakowski³³, H. G. Berns³⁴, K. Connolly³⁴, M. Dziomba³⁴ (The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration) and R. J. Wilkes³⁴
¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
² Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo, Hida, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
³ Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8568, Japan
⁴ Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
⁵ Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
⁶ Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-4575, USA
⁸ Department of Physics, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA 90747, USA
⁹ Department of Physics, Chonnam National University, Kwangju 500-757, Korea
¹⁰ Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
¹¹ Department of Physics, Gifu University, Gifu, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
¹² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
¹³ Faculty of Engineering, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 221-8686, Japan
¹⁴ High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
¹⁵ Department of Physics, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
¹⁶ Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
¹⁷ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551, USA
¹⁸ Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
¹⁹ Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN 55812-2496, USA
²⁰ Department of Physics, Miyagi University of Education, Sendai, Miyagi 980-0845, Japan
²¹ Solar Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
²² Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, USA
²³ Department of Physics, Niigata University, Niigata, Niigata 950-2181, Japan
²⁴ Department of Physics, Okayama University, Okayama, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
²⁵ Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
²⁶ Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
²⁷ Department of Systems Engineering, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8561, Japan
²⁸ Department of Informatics in Social Welfare, Shizuoka University of Welfare, Yaizu, Shizuoka, 425-8611, Japan
²⁹ Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea
³⁰ Department of Physics, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1292, Japan
³¹ The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
³² Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
³³ Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland
³⁴ Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1560, USA

ABSTRACT. We perform a search for neutrinos coincident with GRB 080319B—the brightest GRB observed to date—in a ±1000 s window. No statistically significant coincidences were observed and we thereby obtain an upper limit on the fluence of neutrino-induced muons from this source. From this we apply reasonable assumptions to derive a limit on neutrino fluence from the GRB.

Key words: gamma rays: bursts; neutrinos

Print publication: Issue 1 (2009 May 20)
Received 2008 November 19, accepted for publication 2009 February 26
Published 2009 May 5

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