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A SEARCH FOR ELECTRON ANTINEUTRINOS ASSOCIATED WITH GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE EVENTS GW150914 AND GW151226 USING KAMLAND
- Gando, A;
- Gando, Y;
- Hachiya, T;
- Hayashi, A;
- Hayashida, S;
- Ikeda, H;
- Inoue, K;
- Ishidoshiro, K;
- Karino, Y;
- Koga, M;
- Matsuda, S;
- Mitsui, T;
- Nakamura, K;
- Obara, S;
- Oura, T;
- Ozaki, H;
- Shimizu, I;
- Shirahata, Y;
- Shirai, J;
- Suzuki, A;
- Takai, T;
- Tamae, K;
- Teraoka, Y;
- Ueshima, K;
- Watanabe, H;
- Kozlov, A;
- Takemoto, Y;
- Yoshida, S;
- Fushimi, K;
- Piepke, A;
- Banks, TI;
- Berger, BE;
- Fujikawa, BK;
- O’Donnell, T;
- Learned, JG;
- Maricic, J;
- Sakai, M;
- Winslow, LA;
- Krupczak, E;
- Ouellet, J;
- Efremenko, Y;
- Karwowski, HJ;
- Markoff, DM;
- Tornow, W;
- Detwiler, JA;
- Enomoto, S;
- Decowski, MP
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https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/829/2/l34Abstract
We present a search, using KamLAND, a kiloton-scale anti-neutrino detector, for low-energy anti-neutrino events that were coincident with the gravitational-wave (GW) events GW150914 and GW151226, and the candidate event LVT151012. We find no inverse beta-decay neutrino events within ±500 s of either GW signal. This non-detection is used to constrain the electron anti-neutrino fluence and the total integrated luminosity of the astrophysical sources.