Search for High Energy Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the A ntarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA)
The photo-meson production of pions by shock-accelerated protons could generate a burst of ~10^14 eV neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observable in the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) or its larger successors. Measurement of this flux can test the hypothesis that GRBs are t...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0008255 2023-05-15T14:01:27+02:00 Search for High Energy Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the A ntarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) Bay, Ryan C. 2000 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0008255 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0008255 unknown arXiv Assumed arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article for submissions made before January 2004 http://arxiv.org/licenses/assumed-1991-2003/ Astrophysics astro-ph FOS Physical sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2000 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0008255 2022-04-01T17:35:03Z The photo-meson production of pions by shock-accelerated protons could generate a burst of ~10^14 eV neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observable in the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) or its larger successors. Measurement of this flux can test the hypothesis that GRBs are the sources of the highest-energy cosmic rays, and GRB neutrinos could permit high-precision experiments in neutrino limiting speed, neutrino oscillations, and the weak equivalence principle. Neutrino emission can be expected primarily during the prompt gamma-ray flash and satellite coincidence provides a well-defined window in position and time that can be searched for an excess of upgoing muon events in AMANDA from bursts in the Northern Hemisphere. Using an event quality analysis to further reduce background in a sample of 78 GRBs from the 1997 AMANDA-B10 data set, I find a fluence limit of (E_nu)^2 (dN_nu)/(dE_nu)<3.8*10^-4 min(1,E_nu/E_break) [TeV cm^-2] per average burst, which is orders of magnitude more stringent than in similar previous searches. : Ph.D. thesis (64 pages) Report Antarc* Antarctic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic The Antarctic |
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The photo-meson production of pions by shock-accelerated protons could generate a burst of ~10^14 eV neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observable in the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) or its larger successors. Measurement of this flux can test the hypothesis that GRBs are the sources of the highest-energy cosmic rays, and GRB neutrinos could permit high-precision experiments in neutrino limiting speed, neutrino oscillations, and the weak equivalence principle. Neutrino emission can be expected primarily during the prompt gamma-ray flash and satellite coincidence provides a well-defined window in position and time that can be searched for an excess of upgoing muon events in AMANDA from bursts in the Northern Hemisphere. Using an event quality analysis to further reduce background in a sample of 78 GRBs from the 1997 AMANDA-B10 data set, I find a fluence limit of (E_nu)^2 (dN_nu)/(dE_nu)<3.8*10^-4 min(1,E_nu/E_break) [TeV cm^-2] per average burst, which is orders of magnitude more stringent than in similar previous searches. : Ph.D. thesis (64 pages) |
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Search for High Energy Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the A ntarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) |
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Search for High Energy Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the A ntarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) |
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Search for High Energy Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the A ntarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) |
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Search for High Energy Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the A ntarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) |
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Search for High Energy Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the A ntarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) |
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search for high energy neutrino emission from gamma-ray bursts with the a ntarctic muon and neutrino detector array (amanda) |
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