Stacked search for time shifted high energy neutrinos from gamma ray bursts with the Antares neutrino telescope

S. Adrián-Martínez (1) , A. Albert , M. Andre (2) , M. Anghinolfi (3) , G. Anton , M. Ardid (1) , J. Aubert (4) , B. Baret , J. Barrios-Marti , S. Basa , V. Bertin (4) , S. Biagi , R. Bormuth , C. Bouwhuis , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner (4) , J. Busto (4) , A. Capone , L. Caramete , J. Carr (4) , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , R. Coniglione (5) , H. Costantini (4) , P. Coyle (4) , A. Creusot (6) , I. Dekeyser (7) , A. Deschamps (8) , G. de Bonis , C. Distefano , C. Donzaud (9, 6) , D. Dornic (4) , D. Drouhin , A. Dumas (10) , T. Eberl , D. Elsässer , A. Enzenhöfer , K. Fehn , I. Felis , P. Fermani , F. Folger , A. Fusco , S. Galatà (6) , P. Gay (10) , S. Geisselsöder , K. Geyer , V. Giordano (11) , A. Gleixner , R. Gracia-Ruiz (6) , K. Graf , S. Hallmann , H. van Haren (12) , J. Heijboer , Y. Hello (8) , J. Hernández-Rey , J. Hössl , J. Hofestädt , C. Hugon , C. James , M. de Jong (13) , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin (14) , U. Katz , D. Kiessling , P. Kooijman , A. Kouchner (15) , M. Kreter , I. Kreykenbohm (14) , V. Kulikovskiy , R. Lahmann , Dominique Lefèvre (7) , E. Leonora , S. Loucatos (6) , M. Marcelin (16) , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , J. Martínez-Mora , A. Mathieu (4) , T. Michael , P. Migliozzi , A. Moussa (17) , C. Müller (18) , E. Nezri (16) , E. Păvălaş , C. Pellegrino , C. Perrina , P. Piattelli , V. Popa , T. Pradier (19) , C. Racca , G. Riccobene , R. Richter , K. Roensch , M. Saldaña , D. Samtleben , A. Sanchez-Losa (20) , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , J. Schmid , J. Schnabel , F. Schüssler (21) , T. Seitz , C. Sieger , M. Spurio , J. Steijger , Th. Stolarczyk (22) , M. Taiuti , Christian Tamburini (7) , A. Trovato , M. Tselengidou , C. Tönnis , B. Vallage (22) , C. Vallee (4) , V. van Elewyck (15) , E. Visser , D. Vivolo , S. Wagner , J. Wilms (14) , J. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

1 IGIC - Institut d’Investigació per a la Gestió Integrada de Zones Costaneres
2 IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Kiruna]
3 INFN, Sezione di Genova - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova
4 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
5 DAPNIA - Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée
6 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
7 MIO - Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie
8 OCA - Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
9 IPNO - Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay
10 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont
11 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)
12 NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
13 Faculty of Technology
14 ECAP - Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics
15 APC - AHE - APC - Astrophysique des Hautes Energies
16 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
17 LTI - Laboratoire des technologies Innovantes [Tanger]
18 JKI - Julius Kühn-Institut - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
19 DRS-IPHC - Département Recherches Subatomiques
20 IFIC - Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular
21 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
22 DPP - Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP)

A search for high-energy neutrino emission correlated with gamma-ray bursts outside the electromagnetic prompt-emission time window is presented. Using a stacking approach of the time delays between reported gamma-ray burst alerts and spatially coincident muon-neutrino signatures, data from the Antares neutrino telescope recorded between 2007 and 2012 are analysed. One year of public data from the IceCube detector between 2008 and 2009 have been also investigated. The respective timing profiles are scanned for statistically significant accumulations within 40 days of the Gamma Ray Burst, as expected from Lorentz Invariance Violation effects and some astrophysical models. No significant excess over the expected accidental coincidence rate could be found in either of the two data sets. The average strength of the neutrino signal is found to be fainter than one detectable neutrino signal per hundred gamma-ray bursts in the Antares data at 90% confidence level.

Domains: Physics [physics]; Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]

S. Adrián-Martínez, A. Albert, M. Andre, M. Anghinolfi, G. Anton, et al.. Stacked search for time shifted high energy neutrinos from gamma ray bursts with the Antares neutrino telescope. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2017, C77 (1), pp.20. ⟨10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4496-8⟩. ⟨hal-01621701⟩