@article{4c55d0145f1c4d3faccc3df401cb5ad1,
title = "Search for GeV neutrino emission during intense gamma-ray solar flares with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory",
abstract = "Solar flares convert magnetic energy into thermal and nonthermal plasma energy, the latter implying particle acceleration of charged particles such as protons. Protons are injected out of the coronal acceleration region and can interact with dense plasma in the lower solar atmosphere, producing mesons that subsequently decay into gamma rays and neutrinos at O(MeV-GeV) energies. We present the results of the first search for GeV neutrinos emitted during solar flares carried out with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. While the experiment was originally designed to detect neutrinos with energies between 10 GeV and a few PeV, a new approach allowing for a O(GeV) energy threshold will be presented. The resulting limits allow us to constrain some of the theoretical estimates of the expected neutrino flux.",
author = "{(IceCube Collaboration)} and R. Abbasi and M. Ackermann and J. Adams and Aguilar, {J. A.} and M. Ahlers and M. Ahrens and C. Alispach and Alves, {A. A.} and Amin, {N. M.} and R. An and K. Andeen and T. Anderson and I. Ansseau and G. Anton and C. Arg{\"u}elles and S. Axani and X. Bai and {Balagopal V.}, A. and A. Barbano and Barwick, {S. W.} and B. Bastian and V. Basu and V. Baum and S. Baur and R. Bay and Beatty, {J. J.} and Becker, {K. H.} and {Becker Tjus}, J. and C. Bellenghi and S. Benzvi and D. Berley and E. Bernardini and Besson, {D. Z.} and G. Binder and D. Bindig and E. Blaufuss and S. Blot and S. B{\"o}ser and O. Botner and J. B{\"o}ttcher and E. Bourbeau and J. Bourbeau and F. Bradascio and J. Braun and S. Bron and J. Brostean-Kaiser and A. Burgman and Busse, {R. S.} and Campana, {M. A.} and S. Choi",
note = "Funding Information: The IceCube collaboration acknowledges the significant contributions to this manuscript from Gwenha{\"e}l de Wasseige. We thank Melissa Pesce-Rollins for fruitful discussion. We gratefully acknowledge the support from the following agencies and institutes: USA—U.S. National Science Foundation-Office of Polar Programs, U.S. National Science Foundation-Physics Division, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Open Science Grid (OSG), Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), Frontera computing project at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, U.S. Department of Energy-National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Particle astrophysics research computing center at the University of Maryland, Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research at Michigan State University, and Astroparticle physics computational facility at Marquette University; Belgium—Funds for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS and FWO), FWO Odysseus and Big Science programmes, and Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Belspo); Germany—Bundesministerium f{\"u}r Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP), Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY), and High Performance Computing cluster of the RWTH Aachen; Sweden—Swedish Research Council, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC), and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation; Australia—Australian Research Council; Canada—Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Calcul Qu{\'e}bec, Compute Ontario, Canada Foundation for Innovation, WestGrid, and Compute Canada; Denmark—Villum Fonden and Carlsberg Foundation; New Zealand—Marsden Fund; Japan—Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Institute for Global Prominent Research (IGPR) of Chiba University; Korea—National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); Switzerland—Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); United Kingdom—Department of Physics, University of Oxford. G. d. W. acknowledges support from the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 844138. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 American Physical Society.",
year = "2021",
month = may,
day = "6",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.103.102001",
language = "English",
volume = "103",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "10",
}