1. Search for High-Energy Muon Neutrinos from the 'Naked-Eye' GRB 080319B with the IceCube Neutrino Telescope
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Abbasi, R., Abdou, Y., Abu-Zayyad, T., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Andeen, K., Auffenberg, J., Bai, X., Baker, M., Barwick, S. W., Bay, R., Alba, J. L. Bazo, Beattie, K., Beatty, J. J., Bechet, S., Becker, J. K., Becker, K.-H., Benabderrahmane, M. L., Berdermann, J., Berghaus, P., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bertrand, D., Besson, D. Z., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Boersma, D. J., Bohm, C., Bolmont, J., Botner, O., Bradley, L., Braun, J., Breder, D., Castermans, T., Chirkin, D., Christy, B., Clem, J., Cohen, S., Cowen, D. F., D'Agostino, M. V., Danninger, M., Day, C. T., De Clercq, C., Demirörs, L., Depaepe, O., Descamps, F., Desiati, P., De Vries-Uiterweerd, G., Deyoung, T., Diaz-Velez, J. C., Dreyer, J., Dumm, J. P., Duvoort, M. R., Edwards, W. R., Ehrlich, R., Eisch, J., Ellsworth, R. W., Engdegård, O., Euler, S., Evenson, P. A., Fadiran, O., Fazely, A. R., Feusels, T., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Foerster, M. M., Fox, B. D., Franckowiak, A., Franke, R., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Ganugapati, R., Gerhardt, L., Gladstone, L., Goldschmidt, A., Goodman, J. A., Gozzini, R., Grant, D., Griesel, T., Groß, A., Grullon, S., Gunasingha, R. M., Gurtner, M., Ha, C., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Han, K., Hanson, K., Hasegawa, Y., Heise, J., Helbing, K., Herquet, P., Hickford, S., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoshina, K., Hubert, D., Huelsnitz, W., Hülß, J.-P., Hulth, P. O., Hultqvist, K., Hussain, S., Imlay, R. L., Inaba, M., Ishihara, A., Jacobsen, J., Japaridze, G. S., Johansson, H., Joseph, J. M., Kampert, K.-H., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Kelley, J. L., Kenny, P., Kiryluk, J., Kislat, F., Klein, S. R., Knops, S., Kohnen, G., Kolanoski, H., Köpke, L., Kowalski, M., Kowarik, T., Krasberg, M., Kuehn, K., Kuwabara, T., Labare, M., Lafebre, S., Laihem, K., Landsman, H., Lauer, R., Lennarz, D., Lucke, A., Lundberg, J., Lünemann, J., Madsen, J., Majumdar, P., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Matis, H. S., Mcparland, C. P., Meagher, K., Merck, M., Mészáros, P., Middell, E., Milke, N., Miyamoto, H., Mohr, A., Montaruli, T., Morse, R., Movit, S. M., Münich, K., Nahnhauer, R., Nam, J. W., Nießen, P., Nygren, D. R., Odrowski, S., Olivas, A., Olivo, M., Ono, M., Panknin, S., Patton, S., Heros, C. Pérez De Los, Petrovic, J., Piegsa, A., Pieloth, D., Pohl, A. C., Porrata, R., Potthoff, N., Price, P. B., Prikockis, M., Przybylski, G. T., Rawlins, K., Redl, P., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Ribordy, M., Rizzo, A., Rodrigues, J. P., Roth, P., Rothmaier, F., Rott, C., Roucelle, C., Rutledge, D., Ryckbosch, D., Sander, H.-G., Sarkar, S., Schlenstedt, S., Schmidt, T., Schneider, D., Schukraft, A., Schulz, O., Schunck, M., Seckel, D., Semburg, B., Seo, S. H., Sestayo, Y., Seunarine, S., Silvestri, A., Slipak, A., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stephens, G., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stoufer, M. C., Stoyanov, S., Strahler, E. A., Straszheim, T., Sulanke, K.-H., Sullivan, G. W., Swillens, Q., Taboada, I., Tamburro, A., Tarasova, O., Tepe, A., Ter-Antonyan, S., Terranova, C., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Tosi, D., Turčan, D., Van Eijndhoven, N., Vandenbroucke, J., Van Overloop, A., Voigt, B., Walck, C., Waldenmaier, T., Walter, M., Wendt, C., Westerhoff, S., Whitehorn, N., Wiebusch, C. H., Wiedemann, A., Wikström, G., Williams, D. R., Wischnewski, R., Wissing, H., Woschnagg, K., Xu, X. W., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., and IceCube Collaboration
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High energy ,Gamma-Ray Bursts ,Gamma rays: bursts ,Methods: data analysis ,Neutrinos ,Telescopes ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,gamma rays: bursts ,Astronomy ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Neutrino telescope ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Jet (particle physics) ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,Amanda ,Emission ,0103 physical sciences ,Muon neutrino ,Variability ,010306 general physics ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Selection ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Physics ,Range (particle radiation) ,Muon ,Fireballs ,neutrinos ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,telescopes ,Upper Limits ,methods: data analysis ,13. Climate action ,Space and Planetary Science ,ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING ,Tev ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Neutrino ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Gamma-ray burst ,970417A - Abstract
We report on a search with the IceCube detector for high-energy muon neutrinos from GRB 080319B, one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) ever observed. The fireball model predicts that a mean of 0.1 events should be detected by IceCube for a bulk Lorentz boost of the jet of 300. In both the direct on-time window of 66 s and an extended window of about 300 s around the GRB, no excess was found above background. The 90% CL upper limit on the number of track-like events from the GRB is 2.7, corresponding to a muon neutrino fluence limit of 9.5x10^-3 erg cm^-2 in the energy range between 120 TeV and 2.2 PeV, which contains 90% of the expected events., 26 pages, 8 figures, version 3 corrects some typos in the formulae A2 and A5. The errors are not present in the code used in the analysis and hence none of the plots or results is affected
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- 2009