M ay 2 00 7 The Search for Muon Neutrinos from Northern Hemisphere Gamma-Ray Bursts with AMANDA

We present the results of the analysis of neutrino observations by the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) correlated with photon observations of more than 400 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the Northern Hemisphere from 1997 to 2003. During this time period, AMANDA’s effective collection area for muon neutrinos was larger than that of any other existing detector. Based on our observations of zero neutrinos during and immediately prior to the GRBs in the dataset, we set the most stringent upper limit on muon neutrino emission correlated with gamma-ray bursts. Assuming a Waxman-Bahcall spectrum and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Dr., Anchorage, AK 99508, USA III Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52074 Aachen, Germany Dept. of Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, UK Deceased on leave of absence from Università di Bari, Dipartimento di Fisica, I-70126, Bari, Italy affiliated with Dept. of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Kalmar University, S-39182 Kalmar, Sweden affiliated with IFIC (CSIC-Universitat de València), A. C. 22085, 46071 Valencia, Spain NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA Observatoire de Haute Provence, F-04870 Saint Michel l’Observatoire, France Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Instituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Instituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, c/o CNR Area di Ricerca di Roma Tor Vergata, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, Roma, I-00133 Italy Physics Department, University of Ferrara, Via Saragat 1, 44100 Ferrara, Italy University of California, Space Sciences Laboratory, 7 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450 USA Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 USA Caltech Optical Observatories, California Institute of Technology, MS 105-24, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125 USA Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, 85748, Garching, Germany