Bibcode
Becker, Julia K.; Gaug, Markus; Hsu, Ching-Cheng; Rhode, Wolfgang
Bibliographical reference
GAMMA-RAY BURSTS 2007: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1000, pp. 245-248 (2008).
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2008
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Description
The Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescope was
designed for the detection of photon sources >~50 GeV. The
measurement of highly-inclined air showers renders possible the search
for high-energy neutrinos, too. Only neutrinos can traverse the Earth
without interaction, and therefore, events close to the horizon can be
identified as neutrino-induced rather than photon-induced or hadronic
events. In this paper, Swift-XRT-detected GRBs with given spectral
information are used in order to calculate the potential neutrino energy
spectrum from prompt and afterglow emission for each individual GRB. The
event rate in MAGIC is estimated assuming that the GRB happens within
the field of view of MAGIC. A sample of 568 long GRBs as detected by
BATSE is used to compare the detection rates with 163 Swift-detected
bursts. BATSE has properties similar to the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor
(GBM) on board of GLAST. Therefore the estimated rates give an estimate
for the possibilities of neutrino detection with MAGIC from
GLAST-triggered bursts.