Search for high-energy muon neutrinos from the 'naked-eye' GRB 080319B with the IceCube neutrino telescope

We report on a search with the IceCube detector for high-energy muon neutrinos from GRB 080319B, one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) ever observed. The fireball model predicts that a mean of 0.12 events should be detected by IceCube for a bulk Lorentz boost of the jet of 300. In both the direct on-time window of 66s and an extended window of about 300s around the GRB, there was no excess found above the background. The 90% C.L. upper limit on the number of track-like events from the GRB is 2.7, corresponding to a muon neutrino fluence limit of 9.0x10^-3 erg cm^-2 in the energy range between 145TeV and 2.1PeV, which contains 90% of the expected events.