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DAEMONFLUX: DAta-drivEn MuOn-calibrated atmospheric Neutrino Flux

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-08-29 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

In this paper, we present a refined calculation of the atmospheric neutrino flux spanning from GeV to PeV energies. Our method, Daemonflux, utilizes data-driven inputs and incorporates adjustable parameters to take their uncertainties into account. By optimizing these parameters using a combination of muon data and constraints from fixed-target experiments, we achieve uncertainties in the calculated neutrino fluxes of less than 10% up to 1 TeV, with neutrino ratios constrained to below 10%. Our model performs particularly well at energies below 100 GeV, where the smallest errors are obtained. We make our model available as a software package that provides access to predictions of fluxes, ratios, and errors, including the covariance matrix obtained from the fit.

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@article{arxiv.2303.00022,
  title  = {DAEMONFLUX: DAta-drivEn MuOn-calibrated atmospheric Neutrino Flux},
  author = {Juan Pablo Yañez and Anatoli Fedynitch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.00022},
  year   = {2023}
}

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21 pages, 23 figures