On September 14, 2015 the Advanced LIGO detectors observed their first gravitational wave (GW) transient GW150914. This was followed by a second GW event observed on December 26, 2015. Both events were inferred to have arisen from the merger of black holes in binary systems. Such a system may emit neutrinos if there are magnetic fields and disk debris remaining from the formation of the two black holes. With the surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory we can search for neutrinos with energy Eν above 100 PeV from pointlike sources across the sky with equatorial declination from about -65° to +60°, and, in particular, from a fraction of the 90% confidence-level inferred positions in the sky of GW150914 and GW151226. A targeted search for highly inclined extensive air showers, produced either by interactions of downward-going neutrinos of all flavors in the atmosphere or by the decays of tau leptons originating from tau-neutrino interactions in the Earth's crust (Earth-skimming neutrinos), yielded no candidates in the Auger data collected within ±500 s around or 1 day after the coordinated universal time (UTC) of GW150914 and GW151226, as well as in the same search periods relative to the UTC time of the GW candidate event LVT151012. From the nonobservation we constrain the amount of energy radiated in ultrahigh-energy neutrinos from such remarkable events. © 2016 American Physical Society.
Documento: | Artículo |
Título: | Ultrahigh-energy neutrino follow-up of gravitational wave events GW150914 and GW151226 with the Pierre Auger Observatory |
Autor: | Multitudinario:412 |
Filiación: | Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik-Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Siegen, Germany Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa (UL), Lisboa, Portugal Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (INAF), Torino, Italy INFN, Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, Paris, France Inst. de Física, São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Buenos Aires, Argentina Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Distrito Federal, Mexico Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy Gran Sasso Science Institute (INFN), L'Aquila, Italy Department of Physics and Astronomy, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, NY, United States Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Physics Department, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia Observatorio Pierre Auger, Malargüe, Mendoza, Argentina Observatorio Pierre Auger and Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Malargüe, Mendoza, Argentina University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Karlsruhe, Germany Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States Department of Physics, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France Università Torino, Dipartimento di Fisica, Torino, Italy Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France Institute of Physics (FZU), Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic Università Del Salento, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica E. de Giorgi, Lecce, Italy INFN, Sezione di Lecce, Lecce, Italy INFN Laboratori Nazionali Del Gran Sasso, Assergi, Italy Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal Do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Karlsruhe, Germany Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany Universidad de Granada and C.A.F.P.E., Granada, Spain Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands Università di Catania, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Catania, Italy INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico Institute of Space Science, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil Dipartimento di Fisica ettore Pancini, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università Del Salento, Lecce, Italy Instituto de Astronomía y Física Del Espacio (IAFE, CONICET-UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina Departamento de Física, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Universidade Federal Fluminense, Volta Redonda, Brazil Nationaal Instituut voor Kernfysica en Hoge Energie Fysica (NIKHEF), Science Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Università dell'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy INFN, Gruppo Collegato dell'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy Universidade Federal Do Paraná, Setor Palotina, Brazil IFLP, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, CONICET, La Plata, Argentina Universität Hamburg, II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Hamburg, Germany Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, United States Stichting Astronomisch Onderzoek in Nederland (ASTRON), Dwingeloo, Netherlands New York University, New York, NY, United States Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States Experimental Particle Physics Department, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia Instituto de Física de Rosario (IFIR), CONICET/U.N.R., Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas U.N.R., Rosario, Argentina Facultad Regional Mendoza (CONICET/CNEA), Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Mendoza, Argentina Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik (IPE), Karlsruhe, Germany INFN, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy Faculty of Astrophysics, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), Feira de Santana, Brazil KVI, Center for Advanced Radiation Technology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands Palacky University, RCPTM, Olomouc, Czech Republic Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States Universidade Federal Do ABC (UFABC), Santo-André, Brazil Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Puebla, Mexico Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados Del IPN (CINVESTAV), México, Distrito Federal, Mexico Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, University Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones, CITEDEF, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States U. Profesional Interdisciplinaria en Ing. y Tecnologias Avanzadas Del Instituto Politecnico Nacional, México, Distrito Federal, Mexico SUBATECH, École des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo, Palermo, Italy Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States Escola de Engenharia de Lorena, Universidade de São Paulo, Lorena, Brazil School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Zeuthen, Germany Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium |
Año: | 2016 |
Volumen: | 94 |
Número: | 12 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.122007 |
Título revista: | Physical Review D |
Título revista abreviado: | Phy. Rev. D |
ISSN: | 24700010 |
Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_24700010_v94_n12_p_Multitudinario |