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AA manuscript no. ASTRONOMY (will be inserted by hand later) AND Your thesaurus codes are: 03(02.05.1; 04.19.1; 13.07.1) ASTROPHYSICS Search for a possible space-time correlation between high energy neutrinos and gamma-ray bursts Montaruli T.1 and Ronga F.2 for the MACRO collaboration(∗) 1 INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit`a di Bari, via Amendola 173, I-70126, Bari, Italy 8 2 INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, P.O. Box 13 I-00044, Frascati, Italy 9 9 1 Received February 1, 2008/ Accepted c e D Abstract. We look for space-time correlations between neutrino energy to 1019 eV, improves GRB association 2233 gamma-bursts in the Batse Catalogs and 894 with measured neutrino events in underground detectors 7 upward-going muons produced by neutrino interactions using arrival directions and times, even though expected 1 in the rock below or inside MACRO. Considering a search fluxes are much lower than atmospheric ν background. cone of 10◦ around GRB directions and a time window 1 The MACRO detector, located in the Hall B of the v of ±200 s we find 0 events to be compared to 0.035 ex- Gran Sasso underground laboratories, with a surface of 3 pected background events due to atmospheric neutrinos. 76.6 × 12 m2 and a height of 9 m, can indirectly detect 3 The corresponding upper limit (90% c.l.) is 0.87 × 10−9 neutrinos using a system of ∼ 600 ton of liquid scintilla- 3