A search for astrophysical burst signals at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

SNO Collaboration (2014) A search for astrophysical burst signals at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. Astroparticle Physics, 55. pp. 1-7. ISSN 0927-6505

Abstract

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) has confirmed the standard solar model and neutrino oscillations through the observation of neutrinos from the solar core. In this paper we present a search for neutrinos associated with sources other than the solar core, such as gamma-ray bursts and solar flares. We present a new method for looking for temporal coincidences between neutrino events and astrophysical bursts of widely varying intensity. No correlations were found between neutrinos detected in SNO and such astrophysical sources.