PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 395 - 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021) - NU - Neutrinos & Muons
Low-energy astrophysics with KamLAND
N. Kawada*, S. Obara, K. Ishidoshiro, 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, Y. Kamei, 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, A. Ichikawa, A. Kozlov, D. Chernyak, Y. Takemoto, S. Yoshida, S. Umehara, K.I. Fushimi, K. Nakamura, M. Yoshida, B. Edmond Berger, B. Kurt Fujikawa, J. Gregory Learned, J. Maricic, S. N. Axani, L. Anne Winslow, Z. Fu, J. Ouellet, Y. Efremenko, H. J. Karwowski, D. M. Markoff, W. Tornow, A. Li, J. A. Detwiler, S. Enomoto, P. Decowski, C. Grant, T. O'Donnell and S. Dell'Oroet al. (click to show)
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Pre-published on: July 29, 2021
Published on: March 18, 2022
Abstract
We present two results of a search for MeV-scale neutrino and anti-neutrino events correlated with gravitational wave events/candidates and large solar flares with KamLAND.

The KamLAND detector is a large-volume neutrino detector using liquid scintillator, which is located at 1 km underground under the top of Mt. Ikenoyama in Kamioka, Japan.
KamLAND has multiple reaction channels to detect neutrinos. Electron antineutrino can be detected via inverse-beta decay with 1.8\,MeV neutrino energy threshold. All flavors of neutrinos can be detected via neutrino-electron scattering without neutrino energy threshold.
KamLAND has continued the neutrino observation since 2002 March.

We use the data set of 60 gravitational waves provided by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration during their second and third observing runs and search for coincident electron antineutrino events in KamLAND.
We find no significant coincident signals within a $\pm$500\,s timing window from each gravitational wave and present 90\% C.L. upper limits on the electron antineutrino fluence between $10^{8}$--$10^{13}$\,cm$^{-2}$ for neutrino energies of 1.8--111\,MeV.

For a solar-flare neutrino search at KamLAND, we determine the timing window using the solar X-ray data set provided by the \textit{GOES} satellite series from 2002 to 2019 and search for the excess of coincident event rate on the all-flavor neutrinos.
We find no significant event rate excess in the flare time windows and get 90\% C.L. upper limits on the fluence of neutrinos of all flavors (electron anti-neutrinos) between $10^{10}$--$10^{13}$ cm$^{-2}$ ($10^{8}$--$10^{13}$\,cm$^{-2}$) for neutrino energies in the energy range of 0.4--35\,MeV.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.395.1163
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