Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-04-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, including 3 figures and 1 table. Revised as per Referees' suggestions. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Scientific paper
We report on a study of sub-TeV ($E_\gamma > 10$ GeV) gamma-ray-induced muon secondaries in coincidence with BATSE gamma ray bursts (GRBs). Each TeV gamma ray striking the atmosphere produces $\approx$0.2 muons whose identity and angle can be measured by the Project GRAND array. Eight GRB candidates were studied; seven were selected based upon the optimum product of (detected BATSE fluence) $\times$ (GRAND's acceptance). One candidate was added because it was reported as a detection by the Milagrito collaboration. Seven candidates show a positive, though not statistically significant, muon excess. The most significant possible coincidence shows an excess of $466 \pm 171$ muons during the BATSE T90 time interval. It is also of interest that the event with the second most significant signal to noise (1.2$\sigma$) is the Milagrito event. If our most significant event is real, the implied fluence of energetic ($> 10$ GeV) gammas necessary to account for the observed muon excess would require that most of the GRB fluence arrived in the form of energetic gammas.
D'Andrea Carlos
Fragile Chris P.
Gress John
Mathews Grant J.
Poirier John
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