Search for Tens of MeV Neutrinos associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts in Super-Kamiokande


Abstract in English

A search for neutrinos produced in coincidence with Gamma-Ray Bursts(GRB) was conducted with the Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector. Between December 2008 and March 2017, the Gamma-ray Coordinates Network recorded 2208 GRBs that occurred during normal SK operation. Several time windows around each GRB were used to search for coincident neutrino events. No statistically significant signal in excess of the estimated backgrounds was detected. The $bar u_e$ fluence in the range from 8 MeV to 100 MeV in positron total energy for $bar u_e+prightarrow e^{+}+n$ was found to be less than $rm 5.07times10^5$ cm$^{-2}$ per GRB in 90% C.L. Upper bounds on the fluence as a function of neutrino energy were also obtained.

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