AN ALL-SKY SEARCH FOR THREE FLAVORS OF NEUTRINOS FROM GAMMA-RAY BURSTS WITH THE ICECUBE NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY

M G Aartsen ,G T Przybylski ,Christian Haack ,Thomas Ehrhardt ,S Westerhoff ,S Vallecorsa ,T Kuwabara ,S In ,L Gladstone ,D Tosi ,M Wolf ,A Kappes ,S R Klein ,M Jurkovič ,E Cheung ,P Berghaus ,C Walck ,E Middell ,Gabriel Collin ,S Ter–Antonyan ,M Casier ,T C Arlen ,S W Barwick ,C Böhm ,H Wissing ,D Gier ,K Hoshina ,A Haj Ismail ,R Bay ,J Veenkamp ,G Yodh ,D Besson ,T Karg ,J Adams ,G Binder ,V Di Lorenzo ,J M Conrad ,J P Yañez ,J L Lanfranchi ,A Keivani ,C Spiering ,Shigeru Yoshida ,P Schlunder ,D Hebecker ,J P A M De André ,A Christov ,M Relich ,Tyler Anderson ,H Taavola ,U Katz ,B Eichmann ,L Rädel ,L Wille ,E Unger ,D Grant ,K Jero ,T Palczewski ,R Gaïor ,S Flis ,L Mohrmann ,T Ruhe ,M Leuermann ,M Medici ,K Holzapfel ,K Filimonov ,A Karle ,F Halzen ,Lu Lu ,K Woschnagg ,S C Nowicki ,J C Díaz-Vélez ,M Quinnan ,Z Griffith ,A Steuer ,J L Kelley ,A Wallace ,S Kunwar ,M Vraeghe ,M Labare ,John S Gallagher ,Yunlin Xu ,I Ansseau ,J Braun ,G Kroll ,C Wendt ,D R Nygren ,Hershal Pandya ,S Kopper ,S Schoenen ,B Hansmann ,I Taboada ,K Ghorbani ,T Meures ,J Sandroos ,Sally Robertson ,J Leuner ,T Montaruli ,C Ha ,K Rawlins ,W Huelsnitz ,G De Wasseige ,A Stößl ,P Desiati ,Martin Rongen ,A Olivas ,J Hignight ,K Abraham ,M Wallraff ,H.-P Dembinski ,G Tešić ,H.-P Bretz ,A H Cruz Silva ,D Soldin ,G Golup ,T Stezelberger ,G Merino ,Gisela Anton ,J Lünemann ,D Ryckbosch ,T Kintscher ,A Goldschmidt ,G Neer ,T Hansmann ,K D Hoffman ,X W Xu ,Michael Schimp ,A Obertacke Pollmann ,M J Larson ,S Euler ,R Nahnhauer ,Uwe Naumann ,M Kauer ,D Altmann ,D Bindig ,M N Tobin ,E Hansen ,J Daughhetee ,A Omairat ,J Madsen ,C Kopper ,E Blaufuss ,T Deyoung ,J Davis ,N Wandkowsky ,C Pfendner ,J P Dumm ,A O’murchadha ,A Turcati ,R Maunu ,Minjin Jeong ,T R Wood ,M Tselengidou ,A R Fazely ,D Chirkin ,M Glagla ,T K Gaisser ,J G González ,D Pieloth ,A Ishihara ,H Kolanoski ,J Kemp ,J A Aguilar ,N L Strotjohann ,A Schönwald ,C.-C Fösig ,A Hallgren ,J Becker Tjus ,L Gerhardt ,Ali Kheirandish ,G Maggi ,O Botner ,S Miarecki ,S Böser ,G S Japaridze ,D R Williams ,H G Sander ,Lars Rickard Strom ,M Mandelartz ,F Huang ,R Reimann ,J J Beatty ,E Jacobi ,P A Evenson ,M Vehring ,S Coenders ,M Börner ,L Wills ,Kendall Mahn ,A Bernhard ,G C Hill ,M Stahlberg ,N Van Eijndhoven ,S Benzvi ,J Kiryluk ,M Kroll ,P B Price ,D Heereman ,S Vanheule ,T Menne ,D Seckel ,M Ahrens ,Benedikt Riedel ,K Meagher ,D Lennarz ,W Rhode ,K Krings ,M Stamatikos ,G Krückl ,M Richman ,Christoph Raab ,Dariusz Góra ,J Feintzeig ,R Maruyama ,H S Matis ,H Niederhausen ,Larissa Paul ,R G Stokstad ,C Finley ,F Bos ,M Ackermann ,L Brayeur ,D J Koskinen ,Matthías Huber ,S Fahey ,J Kunnen ,S Richter ,B J Whelan ,K Hanson ,L Sabbatini ,K Helbing ,C Pérez De Los Heros ,C Argüelles ,P A Toale ,S Seunarine ,R Hoffmann ,M Ahlers ,M Usner ,K H Becker ,Lisa Johanna Schumacher ,D V Pankova ,M Dunkman ,D Berley ,S Schöneberg ,T Fuchs ,M Rameez ,A Meli ,E Del Pino Rosendo ,K Wiebe ,C Rott ,F Mcnally ,A Sandrock ,G M Spiczak ,S Tilav ,M Sutherland ,D J Boersma ,T Glüsenkamp ,D Bose ,K Clark ,K Hultqvist ,N Buzinsky ,M Bissok ,J Posselt ,J A Pepper ,D F Cowen ,K Schatto ,A Terliuk ,X Bai ,J Blumenthal ,V Baum ,Ch Weaver ,C H Wiebusch ,S Toscano ,J Vandenbroucke ,T Schmidt ,J Tatar ,A Stasik ,B J P Jones ,S Hickford ,Krijn De Vries ,R Koirala ,E Resconi ,E Pinat ,Maximilian Meier ,J V Santen ,R Hellauer ,N Kurahashi ,D L Xu ,S Sarkar ,C De Clercq ,E Bernardini ,Hrvoje Dujmović ,J Felde ,E Beiser ,S De Ridder ,M Day ,G Kohnen ,J Casey ,K Mase ,L Classen ,G W Sullivan ,A Homeier ,M Archinger ,J Auffenberg ,P O Hulth ,R Konietz ,T Stanev ,M Kim ,M Lesiak-Bzdak ,L Köpke ,B Eberhardt ,R Morse ,M Vöge ,M Song ,M Kowalski ,M Zoll

doi:10.3847/0004-637x/824/2/115

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ABSTRACT We present the results and methodology of a search for neutrinos produced in the decay of charged pions created in interactions between protons and gamma-rays during the prompt emission of 807 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) over the entire sky. This three-year search is the first in IceCube for shower-like Cherenkov light patterns from electron, muon, and tau neutrinos correlated with GRBs. We detect five low-significance events correlated with five GRBs. These events are consistent with the background expectation from atmospheric muons and neutrinos. The results of this search in combination with those of IceCube’s four years of searches for track-like Cherenkov light patterns from muon neutrinos correlated with Northern-Hemisphere GRBs produce limits that tightly constrain current models of neutrino and ultra high energy cosmic ray production in GRB fireballs.

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