A generalized self-veto probability for atmospheric neutrinos
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2014-07-11 v1
Abstract
Neutrino telescopes such as IceCube search for an excess of high energy neutrinos above the steeply falling atmospheric background as one approach to finding extraterrestrial neutrinos. For samples of events selected to start in the detector, the atmospheric background can be reduced to the extent that a neutrino interaction inside the fiducial volume is accompanied by a detectable muon from the same cosmic-ray cascade in which the neutrino was produced. Here we provide an approximate calculation of the veto probability as a function of neutrino energy and zenith angle.
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@article{arxiv.1405.0525,
title = {A generalized self-veto probability for atmospheric neutrinos},
author = {Thomas K. Gaisser and Kyle Jero and Albrecht Karle and Jakob van Santen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0525},
year = {2014}
}