A Search for Muon Neutrinos in Coincidence with Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Southern Hemisphere Sky Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

• Main Author: Maunu, Ryan Edward
• Other Authors: Hoffman, Kara, Digital Repository at the University of Maryland, University of Maryland (College Park, Md.), Physics
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Physics; Astrophysics; Particle physics; Gamma-Ray Bursts; GRBs; High energy neutrinos; IceCube; UHECRs; Ultra-high energy cosmic rays; Sion; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18620; https://doi.org/10.13016/M2449P

The origin of observed ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs, energies in excess of $10^{18.5}$ eV) remains unknown, as extragalactic magnetic fields deflect these charged particles from their true origin. Interactions of these UHECRs at their source would invariably produce high energy neutrinos. A...