A Search for IceCube sub-TeV Neutrinos Correlated with Gravitational-Wave Events Detected By LIGO/Virgo

ArXiv 2303.1597 (2023)

Authors:

R Abbasi, M Ackermann, J Adams, SK Agarwalla, JA Aguilar, M Ahlers, JM Alameddine, NM Amin, K Andeen, G Anton, C Argüelles, Y Ashida, S Athanasiadou, SN Axani, X Bai, A Balagopal V, M Baricevic, SW Barwick, V Basu, R Bay, JJ Beatty, K-H Becker, J Becker Tjus, J Beise, C Bellenghi, S BenZvi, D Berley, E Bernardini, DZ Besson, G Binder, D Bindig, E Blaufuss, S Blot, F Bontempo, JY Book, C Boscolo Meneguolo, S Böser, O Botner, J Böttcher, E Bourbeau, J Braun, B Brinson, J Brostean-Kaiser, RT Burley, RS Busse, D Butterfield, MA Campana, K Carloni, EG Carnie-Bronca, S Chattopadhyay, N Chau, C Chen, Z Chen, D Chirkin, S Choi, BA Clark, L Classen, A Coleman, GH Collin, A Connolly, JM Conrad, P Coppin, P Correa, S Countryman, DF Cowen, P Dave, C De Clercq, JJ DeLaunay, D Delgado López, H Dembinski, K Deoskar, A Desai, P Desiati, KD de Vries, G de Wasseige, T DeYoung, A Diaz, JC Díaz-Vélez, M Dittmer, A Domi, H Dujmovic, MA DuVernois, T Ehrhardt, P Eller, R Engel, H Erpenbeck, J Evans, PA Evenson, KL Fan, K Fang, AR Fazely, A Fedynitch, N Feigl, S Fiedlschuster, C Finley, L Fischer, D Fox, A Franckowiak, E Friedman, A Fritz, P Fürst, TK Gaisser, J Gallagher, E Ganster, A Garcia, L Gerhardt, A Ghadimi, C Glaser, T Glauch, T Glüsenkamp, N Goehlke, JG Gonzalez, S Goswami, D Grant, SJ Gray, S Griffin, S Griswold, C Günther, P Gutjahr, C Haack, A Hallgren, R Halliday, L Halve, F Halzen, H Hamdaoui, M Ha Minh, K Hanson, J Hardin, AA Harnisch, P Hatch, A Haungs, K Helbing, J Hellrung, F Henningsen, L Heuermann, N Heyer, S Hickford, A Hidvegi, C Hill, GC Hill, KD Hoffman, K Hoshina, W Hou, T Huber, K Hultqvist, M Hünnefeld, R Hussain, K Hymon, S In, A Ishihara, M Jacquart, M Jansson, GS Japaridze, K Jayakumar, M Jeong, M Jin, BJP Jones, D Kang, W Kang, X Kang, A Kappes, D Kappesser, L Kardum, T Karg, M Karl, A Karle, U Katz, M Kauer, JL Kelley, A Khatee Zathul, A Kheirandish, J Kiryluk, SR Klein, A Kochocki, R Koirala, H Kolanoski, T Kontrimas, L Köpke, C Kopper, DJ Koskinen, P Koundal, M Kovacevich, M Kowalski, T Kozynets, K Kruiswijk, E Krupczak, A Kumar, E Kun, N Kurahashi, N Lad, C Lagunas Gualda, M Lamoureux, MJ Larson, F Lauber, JP Lazar, JW Lee, K Leonard DeHolton, A Leszczyńska, M Lincetto, QR Liu, M Liubarska, E Lohfink, C Love, CJ Lozano Mariscal, L Lu, F Lucarelli, A Ludwig, W Luszczak, Y Lyu, J Madsen, KBM Mahn, Y Makino, S Mancina, W Marie Sainte, IC Mariş, S Marka, Z Marka, M Marsee, I Martinez-Soler, R Maruyama, F Mayhew, T McElroy, F McNally, JV Mead, K Meagher, S Mechbal, A Medina, M Meier, S Meighen-Berger, Y Merckx, L Merten, J Micallef, T Montaruli, RW Moore, Y Morii, R Morse, M Moulai, T Mukherjee, R Naab, R Nagai, M Nakos, U Naumann, J Necker, M Neumann, H Niederhausen, MU Nisa, A Noell, SC Nowicki, A Obertacke Pollmann, V O'Dell, M Oehler, B Oeyen, A Olivas, R Orsoe, J Osborn, E O'Sullivan, H Pandya, N Park, GK Parker, EN Paudel, L Paul, C Pérez de los Heros, J Peterson, S Philippen, S Pieper, A Pizzuto, M Plum, A Pontén, Y Popovych, M Prado Rodriguez, B Pries, R Procter-Murphy, GT Przybylski, J Rack-Helleis, K Rawlins, Z Rechav, A Rehman, P Reichherzer, G Renzi, E Resconi, S Reusch, W Rhode, M Richman, B Riedel, EJ Roberts, S Robertson, S Rodan, G Roellinghoff, M Rongen, C Rott, T Ruhe, L Ruohan, D Ryckbosch, S Athanasiadou, I Safa, J Saffer, D Salazar-Gallegos, P Sampathkumar, SE Sanchez Herrera, A Sandrock, M Santander, S Sarkar, S Sarkar, J Savelberg, P Savina, M Schaufel, H Schieler, S Schindler, B Schlüter, F Schlüter, T Schmidt, J Schneider, FG Schröder, L Schumacher, G Schwefer, S Sclafani, D Seckel, S Seunarine, A Sharma, S Shefali, N Shimizu, M Silva, B Skrzypek, B Smithers, R Snihur, J Soedingrekso, A Søgaard, D Soldin, G Sommani, C Spannfellner, GM Spiczak, C Spiering, M Stamatikos, T Stanev, T Stezelberger, T Stürwald, T Stuttard, GW Sullivan, I Taboada, S Ter-Antonyan, WG Thompson, J Thwaites, S Tilav, K Tollefson, C Tönnis, S Toscano, D Tosi, A Trettin, CF Tung, R Turcotte, JP Twagirayezu, B Ty, MA Unland Elorrieta, AK Upadhyay, K Upshaw, N Valtonen-Mattila, J Vandenbroucke, N van Eijndhoven, D Vannerom, J van Santen, J Vara, J Veitch-Michaelis, M Venugopal, S Verpoest, D Veske, C Walck, TB Watson, C Weaver, P Weigel, A Weindl, J Weldert, C Wendt, J Werthebach, M Weyrauch, N Whitehorn, CH Wiebusch, N Willey, DR Williams, M Wolf, G Wrede, XW Xu, JP Yanez, E Yildizci, S Yoshida, F Yu, S Yu, T Yuan, Z Zhang, P Zhelnin

Limits on Neutrino Emission from GRB 221009A from MeV to PeV Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 946:1 (2023) L26

Authors:

R Abbasi, M Ackermann, J Adams, SK Agarwalla, N Aggarwal, JA Aguilar, M Ahlers, JM Alameddine, NM Amin, K Andeen, G Anton, C Argüelles, Y Ashida, S Athanasiadou, SN Axani, X Bai, A Balagopal V., M Baricevic, SW Barwick, V Basu, R Bay, JJ Beatty, K-H Becker, J Becker Tjus

Abstract:

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have long been considered a possible source of high-energy neutrinos. While no correlations have yet been detected between high-energy neutrinos and GRBs, the recent observation of GRB 221009A—the brightest GRB observed by Fermi-GBM to date and the first one to be observed above an energy of 10 TeV—provides a unique opportunity to test for hadronic emission. In this paper, we leverage the wide energy range of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory to search for neutrinos from GRB 221009A. We find no significant deviation from background expectation across event samples ranging from MeV to PeV energies, placing stringent upper limits on the neutrino emission from this source.

Matching and event-shape NNDL accuracy in parton showers

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer Nature 2023:3 (2023) 224

Authors:

Keith Hamilton, Alexander Karlberg, Gavin P Salam, Ludovic Scyboz, Rob Verheyen

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to spectral signatures of hadronic PeVatrons with application to Galactic Supernova Remnants

(2023)

Authors:

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium, F Acero, A Acharyya, R Adam, A Aguasca-Cabot, I Agudo, A Aguirre-Santaella, J Alfaro, R Aloisio, N Álvarez Crespo, R Alves Batista, L Amati, E Amato, G Ambrosi, EO Angüner, C Aramo, C Arcaro, T Armstrong, K Asano, Y Ascasibar, J Aschersleben, M Backes, A Baktash, C Balazs, M Balbo, J Ballet, A Baquero Larriva, V Barbosa Martins, U Barres de Almeida, JA Barrio, D Bastieri, JR Baxter, J Becker Tjus, W Benbow, MI Bernardos-Martín, J Bernete, A Berti, B Bertucci, V Beshley, P Bhattacharjee, S Bhattacharyya, A Biland, E Bissaldi, J Biteau, O Blanch, P Bordas, E Bottacini, J Bregeon, R Brose, N Bucciantini, A Bulgarelli, M Capasso, RA Capuzzo Dolcetta, P Caraveo, M Cardillo, R Carosi, S Casanova, E Cascone, F Cassol, F Catalani, M Cerruti, P Chadwick, S Chaty, A Chen, M Chernyakova, A Chiavassa, J Chudoba, C Coimbra-Araujo, V Conforti, JL Contreras, A Costa, H Costantini, P Cristofari, R Crocker, G D'Amico, F D'Ammando, A De Angelis, V De Caprio, EM de Gouveia Dal Pino, E de Ona Wilhelmi, V de Souza, C Delgado, D della Volpe, D Depaoli, T Di Girolamo, F Di Pierro, R Di Tria, L Di Venere, S Diebold, JI Djuvsland, A Donini, M Doro, RDC Dos Anjos, VV Dwarkadas, S Einecke, D Elsässer, G Emery, C Evoli, D Falceta-Goncalves, E Fedorova, S Fegan, G Ferrand, E Fiandrini, M Filipovic, V Fioretti, M Fiori, L Foffano, G Fontaine, S Fukami, G Galanti, G Galaz, V Gammaldi, C Gasbarra, A Ghalumyan, G Ghirlanda, M Giarrusso, G Giavitto, N Giglietto, F Giordano, M Giroletti, A Giuliani, L Giunti, N Godinovic, J Goulart Coelho, L Gréaux, D Green, M-H Grondin, O Gueta, S Gunji, T Hassan, M Heller, S Hernández-Cadena, J Hinton, B Hnatyk, R Hnatyk, D Hoffmann, W Hofmann, J Holder, D Horan, P Horvath, M Hrabovsky, D Hrupec, T Inada, F Incardona, S Inoue, K Ishio, M Jamrozy, P Janecek, I Jiménez Martínez, W Jin, I Jung-Richardt, J Jurysek, P Kaaret, V Karas, U Katz, D Kerszberg, B Khélifi, DB Kieda, R Kissmann, T Kleiner, G Kluge, W Kluzniak, J Knödlseder, Y Kobayashi, K Kohri, N Komin, P Kornecki, H Kubo, N La Palombara, M Láinez, A Lamastra, J Lapington, M Lemoine-Goumard, J-P Lenain, F Leone, G Leto, F Leuschner, E Lindfors, I Liodakis, T Lohse, S Lombardi, F Longo, R López-Coto, M López-Moya, A López-Oramas, S Loporchio, PL Luque-Escamilla, O Macias, J Mackey, P Majumdar, D Mandat, M Manganaro, G Manicò, M Marconi, J Martí, G Martínez, M Martinez, O Martinez, AJTS Mello, S Menchiari, DM-A Meyer, S Micanovic, D Miceli, M Miceli, J Michalowski, T Miener, JM Miranda, A Mitchell, B Mode, R Moderski, L Mohrmann, E Molina, T Montaruli, D Morcuende, G Morlino, A Morselli, M Mosè, E Moulin, R Mukherjee, K Munari, T Murach, A Nagai, S Nagataki, R Nemmen, J Niemiec, D Nieto, M Nievas Rosillo, M Nikolajuk, K Nishijima, K Noda, B Novosyadlyj, S Nozaki, M Ohishi, S Ohm, Y Ohtani, A Okumura, B Olmi, RA Ong, M Orienti, R Orito, M Orlandini, E Orlando, S Orlando, M Ostrowski, I Oya, FR Pantaleo, JM Paredes, B Patricelli, M Pecimotika, M Peresano, J Pérez-Romero, M Persic, O Petruk, G Piano, E Pietropaolo, G Pirola, C Pittori, M Pohl, G Ponti, E Prandini, G Principe, C Priyadarshi, E Pueschel, G Pühlhofer, ML Pumo, A Quirrenbach, R Rando, S Razzaque, P Reichherzer, A Reimer, O Reimer, M Renaud, T Reposeur, M Ribó, T Richtler, J Rico, F Rieger, M Rigoselli, L Riitano, V Rizi, E Roache, P Romano, G Romeo, J Rosado, G Rowell, B Rudak, I Sadeh, S Safi-Harb, L Saha, S Sailer, M Sánchez-Conde, S Sarkar, K Satalecka, FG Saturni, A Scherer, P Schovánek, F Schussler, U Schwanke, S Scuderi, M Seglar-Arroyo, O Sergijenko, M Servillat, R-Y Shang, P Sharma, H Siejkowski, V Sliusar, A Słowikowska, H Sol, A Specovius, ST Spencer, G Spengler, A Stamerra, S Stanič, T Starecki, R Starling, T Stolarczyk, LA Stuani Pereira, Y Suda, T Suomijarvi, I Sushch, H Tajima, P-HT Tam, SJ Tanaka, F Tavecchio, V Testa, W Tian, L Tibaldo, DF Torres, N Tothill, B Vallage, P Vallania, C van Eldik, J van Scherpenberg, J Vandenbroucke, M Vazquez Acosta, M Vecchi, S Vercellone, G Verna, A Viana, J Vignatti, V Vitale, V Vodeb, S Vorobiov, T Vuillaume, SJ Wagner, R Walter, M White, A Wierzcholska, M Will, D Williams, L Yang, T Yoshida, T Yoshikoshi, G Zaharijas, L Zampieri, D Zavrtanik, M Zavrtanik, VI Zhdanov, M Živec

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to spectral signatures of hadronic PeVatrons with application to Galactic Supernova Remnants

Astroparticle Physics Elsevier 150 (2023) 102850

Authors:

F Acero, A Acharyya, R Adam, Subir Sarkar

Abstract:

The local Cosmic Ray (CR) energy spectrum exhibits a spectral softening at energies around 3 PeV. Sources which are capable of accelerating hadrons to such energies are called hadronic PeVatrons. However, hadronic PeVatrons have not yet been firmly identified within the Galaxy. Several source classes, including Galactic Supernova Remnants (SNRs), have been proposed as PeVatron candidates. The potential to search for hadronic PeVatrons with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is assessed. The focus is on the usage of very high energy γ-ray spectral signatures for the identification of PeVatrons. Assuming that SNRs can accelerate CRs up to knee energies, the number of Galactic SNRs which can be identified as PeVatrons with CTA is estimated within a model for the evolution of SNRs. Additionally, the potential of a follow-up observation strategy under moonlight conditions for PeVatron searches is investigated. Statistical methods for the identification of PeVatrons are introduced, and realistic Monte-Carlo simulations of the response of the CTA observatory to the emission spectra from hadronic PeVatrons are performed. Based on simulations of a simplified model for the evolution for SNRs, the detection of a γ-ray signal from in average 9 Galactic PeVatron SNRs is expected to result from the scan of the Galactic plane with CTA after 10 h of exposure. CTA is also shown to have excellent potential to confirm these sources as PeVatrons in deep observations with (100) hours of exposure per source.