Search for Low-energy Electron Antineutrinos in KamLAND Associated with Gravitational Wave Events
/ Authors
S. Abe, S. Asami, A. Gando, Y. Gando, T. Gima, A. Goto, T. Hachiya, K. Hata, S. Hayashida, K. Hosokawa
and 58 more authors
K. Ichimura, S. Ieki, H. Ikeda, K. Inoue, K. Ishidoshiro, Y. Kamei, N. Kawada, Y. Kishimoto, T. Kinoshita, M. Koga, N. Maemura, T. Mitsui, H. Miyake, K. Nakamura, R. Nakamura, H. Ozaki, T. Sakai, H. Sambonsugi, I. Shimizu, J. Shirai, K. Shiraishi, A. Suzuki, Y. Suzuki, A. Takeuchi, K. Tamae, K. Ueshima, Y. Wada, H. Watanabe, Y. Yoshida, S. Obara, A. Kozlov, D. Chernyak, Y. Takemoto, S. Yoshida, S. Umehara, K. Fushimi, A. Ichikawa, K. Nakamura, M. Yoshida, B. Berger, B. Fujikawa, J. Learned, J. Maricic, S. Axani, L. Winslow, Z. Fu, J. Ouellet, Y. Efremenko, H. Karwowski, D. Markoff, W. Tornow, A. Li, J. Detwiler, S. Enomoto, M. Decowski, C. Grant, T. O’Donnell, S. Dell’Oro
/ Abstract
We present the results of a search for MeV-scale electron antineutrino events in KamLAND coincident with the 60 gravitational wave events/candidates reported by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration during their second and third observing runs. We find no significant coincident signals within a ±500 s timing window from each gravitational wave and present 90% C.L. upper limits on the electron antineutrino fluence between 108 and 1013 cm−2 for neutrino energies in the energy range of 1.8–111 MeV.
Journal: The Astrophysical Journal