An absence of neutrinos associated with cosmic-ray acceleration in γ-ray bursts

被引：250

作者：

Abbasi, R. ^{[1
]}

Abdou, Y. ^{[2
]}

Abu-Zayyad, T. ^{[3
]}

Ackermann, M. ^{[4
]}

Adams, J. ^{[5
]}

Aguilar, J. A. ^{[6
]}

Ahlers, M. ^{[1
]}

Altmann, D. ^{[7
]}

Andeen, K. ^{[1
]}

Auffenberg, J. ^{[1
]}

Bai, X. ^{[8
,9
,10
]}

Baker, M. ^{[1
]}

Barwick, S. W. ^{[11
]}

Bay, R. ^{[12
]}

Alba, J. L. Bazo ^{[4
]}

Beattie, K. ^{[13
]}

Beatty, J. J. ^{[14
,15
,16
]}

Bechet, S. ^{[17
]}

Becker, J. K. ^{[18
]}

Becker, K. -H. ^{[19
]}

Bell, M. ^{[20
]}

Benabderrahmane, M. L. ^{[4
]}

BenZvi, S. ^{[1
]}

Berdermann, J. ^{[4
]}

Berghaus, P. ^{[8
,9
]}

Berley, D. ^{[21
]}

Bernardini, E. ^{[4
]}

Bertrand, D. ^{[17
]}

Besson, D. Z. ^{[22
]}

Bindig, D. ^{[19
]}

Bissok, M. ^{[7
]}

Blaufuss, E. ^{[21
]}

Blumenthal, J. ^{[7
]}

Boersma, D. J. ^{[7
]}

Bohm, C. ^{[23
,24
]}

Bose, D. ^{[25
]}

Boeser, S. ^{[26
]}

Botner, O. ^{[27
]}

Brayeur, L. ^{[25
]}

Brown, A. M. ^{[1
]}

Buitink, S. ^{[21
]}

Caballero-Mora, K. S. ^{[20
]}

Carson, M. ^{[2
]}

Casier, M. ^{[25
]}

Chirkin, D. ^{[1
]}

Christy, B. ^{[21
]}

Clevermann, F. ^{[28
]}

Cohen, S. ^{[29
]}

Colnard, C. ^{[30
]}

Cowen, D. F. ^{[20
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, 1150 Univ Ave, Madison, WI 53706 USA

[2] Univ Ghent, Dept Phys & Astron, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

[3] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, River Falls, WI 54022 USA

[4] DESY, D-15735 Zeuthen, Germany

[5] Univ Canterbury, Dept Phys & Astron, Christchurch 1, New Zealand

[6] Univ Geneva, Dept Phys Nucl & Corpusculaire, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland

[7] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Phys Inst 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany

[8] Univ Delaware, Bartol Res Inst, Newark, DE 19716 USA

[9] Univ Delaware, Dept Phys & Astron, Newark, DE 19716 USA

[10] S Dakota Sch Mines & Technol, Dept Phys, Rapid City, SD 57701 USA

[11] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA

[12] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[13] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[14] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA

[15] Ohio State Univ, Ctr Cosmol & Astroparticle Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA

[16] Ohio State Univ, Dept Astron, Columbus, OH 43210 USA

[17] Univ Libre Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

[18] Ruhr Univ Bochum, Fak Phys & Astron, D-44780 Bochum, Germany

[19] Univ Wuppertal, Dept Phys, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany

[20] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

[21] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

[22] Univ Kansas, Dept Phys & Astron, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA

[23] Stockholm Univ, Oskar Klein Ctr, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

[24] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

[25] Vrije Univ Brussel, Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

[26] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany

[27] Uppsala Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden

[28] TU Dortmund Univ, Dept Phys, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany

[29] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Lab High Energy Phys, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

[30] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, D-69177 Heidelberg, Germany

[31] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

[32] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Phys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

[33] Georgia Inst Technol, Ctr Relativist Astrophys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

[34] So Univ, Dept Phys, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA

[35] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Astron, Madison, WI 53706 USA

[36] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G7, Canada

[37] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-55099 Mainz, Germany

[38] Univ Adelaide, Sch Chem & Phys, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia

[39] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA

[40] Chiba Univ, Dept Phys, Chiba 2638522, Japan

[41] Clark Atlanta Univ, CTSPS, Atlanta, GA 30314 USA

[42] Humboldt Univ, Inst Phys, D-12489 Berlin, Germany

[43] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA

[44] Sezione Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Dipartimento Fis, I-70126 Bari, Italy

[45] Univ Mons, B-7000 Mons, Belgium

[46] Univ Alaska Anchorage, Dept Phys & Astron, Anchorage, AK 99508 USA

[47] Tech Univ Munich, D-85748 Garching, Germany

[48] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford OX1 3NP, England

[49] Univ W Indies, Dept Phys, BB-11000 Bridgetown, Barbados

[50] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

来源：

NATURE | 2012年 / 484卷 / 7394期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 瑞典研究理事会; 澳大利亚研究理事会;

关键词：

HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRINOS; ICECUBE; FLUX; TELESCOPE; SEARCH;

D O I：

10.1038/nature11068

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Very energetic astrophysical events are required to accelerate cosmic rays to above 10(18) electronvolts. GRBs (c-ray bursts) have been proposed as possible candidate sources(1-3). In the GRB 'fireball' model, cosmic-ray acceleration should be accompanied by neutrinos produced in the decay of charged pions created in interactions between the high-energy cosmic-ray protons and gamma-rays(4). Previous searches for such neutrinos found none, but the constraints were weak because the sensitivity was at best approximately equal to the predicted flux(5-7). Here we report an upper limit on the flux of energetic neutrinos associated with GRBs that is at least a factor of 3.7 below the predictions(4,8-10). This implies either that GRBs are not the only sources of cosmic rays with energies exceeding 10(18) electronvolts or that the efficiency of neutrino production is much lower than has been predicted.

引用

页码：351 / 354

页数：4

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