Search for Solar Flare Neutrinos with the KamLAND Detector

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Authors
  • S. Abe
  • S. Asami
  • A. Gando
  • Y. Gando
  • T. Gima
  • A. Goto
  • T. Hachiya
  • K. Hata
  • S. Hayashida
  • K. Hosokawa
  • 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
  • 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.K. Ichikawa
  • A. Kozlov
  • D. Chernyak
  • Y. Takemoto
  • S. Yoshida
  • S. Umehara
  • K. Fushimi
  • M.P. Decowski
  • KamLAND Collaboration
Publication date 10-01-2022
Journal Astrophysical Journal
Article number 103
Volume | Issue number 924 | 2
Number of pages 10
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
Abstract

We report the result of a search for neutrinos in coincidence with solar flares from the GOES flare database. The search was performed on a 10.8 kton-year exposure of KamLAND collected from 2002 to 2019. This large exposure allows us to explore previously unconstrained parameter space for solar flare neutrinos. We found no statistical excess of neutrinos and established 90% confidence level upper limits of 8.4 × 107 cm-2 (3.0 × 109 cm-2) on the electron antineutrino (electron neutrino) fluence at 20 MeV normalized to the X12 flare, assuming that the neutrino fluence is proportional to the X-ray intensity.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac35d1
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85123899172
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