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Solar Neutrino Zenith Angle Distribution and Uncertainty in Earth Matter Density

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v2 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We estimate in this paper the errors in the zenith angle distribution for the charged current events of the solar neutrinos caused by the uncertainty of the earth electron density. In the model of PREM with a 5% uncertainty in the earth electron density we numerically calculate the corrections to the correlation between [N]5/[N]2 [N]_5 /[N]_2 and [N]2/[N]3 [N]_2 /[N]_3 , and find the errors notable.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0112319,
  title  = {Solar Neutrino Zenith Angle Distribution and Uncertainty in Earth Matter Density},
  author = {Lian-You Shan and Xinmin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0112319},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Latex, 11 pages, 6 figures References added. Final version to appear in Phys Rev D