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Atmospheric neutrino flux and muon data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We present a new one-dimensional calculation of low and intermediate energy atmospheric muon and neutrino fluxes, using up-to-date data on primary cosmic rays and hadronic interactions. The existing agreement between calculated muon fluxes and the data of the CAPRICE 94 muon experiment provides an evidence in favor of the validity of our description of hadronic interactions and shower development. This also supports our neutrino fluxes which are essentially lower than those used for the standard analyses of the sub-GeV and multi-GeV neutrino induced events in underground detectors.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0106014,
  title  = {Atmospheric neutrino flux and muon data},
  author = {G. Fiorentini and V. A. Naumov and F. L. Villante},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0106014},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, 5 figures; to appear in the Proc. of the 27th International Cosmic Ray Conference (August 2001), Hamburg, Germany