Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77: 20
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4496-8

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

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

¹ Institut d’Investigació per a la Gestió Integrada de les Zones Costaneres (IGIC), Universitat Politècnica de València, C/ Paranimf 1, 46730, Gandia, Spain
² GRPHE-Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Colmar, 34 rue du Grillenbreit, BP 50568, 68008, Colmar, France
³ CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France
⁴ Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics, Technical University of Catalonia, Rambla Exposició, 08800, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Spain
⁵ INFN-Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146, Genoa, Italy
⁶ Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erwin-Rommel-Str. 1, 91058, Erlangen, Germany
⁷ Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
⁸ APC, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/IRFU, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75205, Paris, France
⁹ IFIC-Instituto de Física Corpuscular, Edificios Investigación de Paterna, CSIC-Universitat de València, c/ Catedrático José Beltrán, 2, 46980, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
¹⁰ LAM-Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, Pôle de l’ Étoile Site de Château-Gombert, rue Frédéric Joliot-Curie 38, 13388, Marseille Cedex 13, France
¹¹ INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Viale Berti-Pichat 6/2, 40127, Bologna, Italy
¹² Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, Viale Berti Pichat 6/2, 40127, Bologna, Italy
¹³ INFN-Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
¹⁴ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università La Sapienza, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
¹⁵ Institute for Space Sciences, 77125, Bucharest, Măgurele, Romania
¹⁶ Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, BP 10448, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
¹⁷ Géoazur, Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS/INSU, IRD, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Sophia Antipolis, France
¹⁸ INFN-Sezione di Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy
¹⁹ INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS), Via S. Sofia 62, 95123, Catania, Italy
²⁰ Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO), Aix-Marseille University, 13288, Marseille Cedex 9, France
²¹ Université du Sud Toulon-Var, CNRS-INSU/IRD UM 110, 83957, La Garde Cedex, France
²² Université Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France
²³ INFN-Sezione di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127, Pisa, Italy
²⁴ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127, Pisa, Italy
²⁵ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Landsdiep 4, 1797 SZ, ’t Horntje, Texel, The Netherlands
²⁶ Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
²⁷ Faculteit Betawetenschappen, Universiteit Utrecht, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC, Utrecht, The Netherlands
²⁸ Instituut voor Hoge-Energie Fysica, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Science Park 105, 1098 XG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
²⁹ Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte and ECAP, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Sternwartstr. 7, 96049, Bamberg, Germany
³⁰ Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, 119991, Moscow, Russia
³¹ INFN-Sezione di Catania, Viale Andrea Doria 6, 95125, Catania, Italy
³² Dipartimento di Fisica ed Astronomia dell’Università, Viale Andrea Doria 6, 95125, Catania, Italy
³³ Direction des Sciences de la Matière, Institut de recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l’Univers, Service de Physique des Particules, CEA Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
³⁴ IPHC-Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Université de Strasbourg et CNRS/IN2P3, 23 rue du Loess, BP 28, 67037, Strasbourg Cedex 2, France
³⁵ Leids Instituut voor Onderzoek in Natuurkunde, Universiteit Leiden, 2333 CA, Leiden, The Netherlands
³⁶ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146, Genoa, Italy
³⁷ Laboratory of Physics of Matter and Radiations, University Mohammed I, B.P.717, 6000, Oujda, Morocco
³⁸ INFN-Sezione di Napoli, Via Cintia, 80126, Naples, Italy
³⁹ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università Federico II di Napoli, Via Cintia, 80126, Naples, Italy
⁴⁰ Institut Universitaire de France, 75005, Paris, France

^* e-mail: baret@in2p3.fr

Received: 1 September 2016
Accepted: 31 October 2016
Published online: 10 January 2017

Abstract

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.