| Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic phenomenon in the universe, releasing isotropic equivalent energies of O (1052) ergs over short time scales. While it is possible to wholly explain the keV-GeV observed photons by purely electromagnetic processes, it is natural to consider the implications of concurrent hadronic (proton) acceleration in these sources. Such processes make GRBs one of the leading candidates for the sources of the ultra high-energy cosmic rays as well as sources of associated high energy (TeV-PeV) neutrinos. We have performed searches for such neutrinos from 85 northern sky GRBs with the AMANDA-II neutrino detector. No signal is observed and upper limits are set on the emission from these sources. Additionally, we have performed a search for 41 northern sky GRBs using the 22-string configuration of the IceCube neutrino telescope, employing an unbinned maximum-likelihood method and individual modeling of the predicted emission from each burst. This search is consistent with the background-only hypothesis and we set upper limits on the emission. |
