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The prompt contribution to the atmospheric neutrino flux is analyzed. It is demonstrated that the corresponding theoretical uncertainties related to perturbative treatment of charm production, notably, the ones stemming from the low and…

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Interpretation of measurements of the number of muons in extensive air shower experiments

In this paper we analyze the energy evolution of the muon content of air showers between $10^{18.4}$ and $10^{19.6}$ eV to be able to determine the most likely mass composition scenario from future number of muons measurements. The energy…

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The attenuation length of the muon content in extensive air showers provides important information regarding the generation and development of air showers. This information can be used not only to improve the description of such showers but…

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Lateral Distribution of Muons in IceCube Cosmic Ray Events

In cosmic ray air showers, the muon lateral separation from the center of the shower is a measure of the transverse momentum that the muon parent acquired in the cosmic ray interaction. IceCube has observed cosmic ray interactions that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 IceCube Collaboration , R. Abbasi , Y. Abdou , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , D. Altmann , K. Andeen , J. Auffenberg , X. Bai , M. Baker , S. W. Barwick , V. Baum , R. Bay , K. Beattie , J. J. Beatty , S. Bechet , J. Becker Tjus , K. -H. Becker , M. Bell , M. L. Benabderrahmane , S. BenZvi , J. Berdermann , P. Berghaus , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , D. Bertrand , D. Z. Besson , D. Bindig , M. Bissok , E. Blaufuss , J. Blumenthal , D. J. Boersma , C. Bohm , D. Bose , S. Böser , O. Botner , L. Brayeur , A. M. Brown , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , S. Buitink , M. Carson , J. Casey , M. Casier , D. Chirkin , B. Christy , F. Clevermann , S. Cohen , D. F. Cowen , A. H. Cruz Silva , M. Danninger , J. Daughhetee , J. C. Davis , C. De Clercq , F. Descamps , P. Desiati , G. de Vries-Uiterweerd , T. DeYoung , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , J. Dreyer , J. P. Dumm , M. Dunkman , R. Eagan , J. Eisch , C. Elliott , R. W. Ellsworth , O. Engdegård , S. Euler , P. A. Evenson , O. Fadiran , A. R. Fazely , A. Fedynitch , J. Feintzeig , T. Feusels , K. Filimonov , C. Finley , T. Fischer-Wasels , S. Flis , A. Franckowiak , R. Franke , K. Frantzen , T. Fuchs , T. K. Gaisser , J. Gallagher , L. Gerhardt , L. Gladstone , T. Glüsenkamp , A. Goldschmidt , J. A. Goodman , D. Góra , D. Grant , A. Groß , S. Grullon , M. Gurtner , C. Ha , A. Haj Ismail , A. Hallgren , F. Halzen , K. Hanson , D. Heereman , P. Heimann , D. Heinen , K. Helbing , R. Hellauer , S. Hickford , G. C. Hill , K. D. Hoffman , R. Hoffmann , A. Homeier , K. Hoshina , W. Huelsnitz , P. O. Hulth , K. Hultqvist , S. Hussain , A. Ishihara , E. Jacobi , J. Jacobsen , G. S. Japaridze , O. Jlelati , A. Kappes , T. Karg , A. Karle , J. Kiryluk , F. Kislat , J. Kläs , S. R. Klein , S. Klepser , J. -H. Köhne , G. Kohnen , H. Kolanoski , L. Köpke , C. Kopper , S. Kopper , D. J. Koskinen , M. Kowalski , M. Krasberg , G. Kroll , J. Kunnen , N. Kurahashi , T. Kuwabara , M. Labare , K. Laihem , H. Landsman , M. J. Larson , R. Lauer , M. Lesiak-Bzdak , J. Lünemann , J. Madsen , R. Maruyama , K. Mase , H. S. Matis , A. McDermott , F. McNally , K. Meagher , M. Merck , P. Mészáros , T. Meures , S. Miarecki , E. Middell , N. Milke , J. Miller , L. Mohrmann , T. Montaruli , R. Morse , S. M. Movit , R. Nahnhauer , U. Naumann , P. Nießen , S. C. Nowicki , D. R. Nygren , A. Obertacke , S. Odrowski , A. Olivas , M. Olivo , A. O'Murchadha , S. Panknin , L. Paul , J. A. Pepper , C. Pérez de los Heros , D. Pieloth , N. Pirk , J. Posselt , P. B. Price , G. T. Przybylski , L. Rädel , K. Rawlins , P. Redl , E. Resconi , W. Rhode , M. Ribordy , M. Richman , B. Riedel , J. P. Rodrigues , J. Roth , F. Rothmaier , C. Rott , C. Roucelle , T. Ruhe , B. Ruzybayev , D. Ryckbosch , S. M. Saba , T. Salameh , H. -G. Sander , M. Santander , S. Sarkar , K. Schatto , M. Scheel , F. Scheriau , T. Schmidt , M. Schmitz , S. Schoenen , S. Schöneberg , L. Schönherr , A. Schönwald , A. Schukraft , L. Schulte , O. Schulz , D. Seckel , S. H. Seo , Y. Sestayo , S. Seunarine , L. Shulman , M. W. E. Smith , M. Soiron , D. Soldin , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , M. Stamatikos , T. Stanev , A. Stasik , T. Stezelberger , R. G. Stokstad , A. Stößl , S. Stoyanov , E. A. Strahler , R. Ström , K-H. Sulanke , G. W. Sullivan , H. Taavola , I. Taboada , A. Tamburro , S. Ter-Antonyan , S. Tilav , P. A. Toale , S. Toscano , M. Usner , D. van der Drift , N. van Eijndhoven , A. Van Overloop , J. van Santen , M. Vehring , M. Voge , C. Walck , T. Waldenmaier , M. Wallraff , M. Walter , R. Wasserman , Ch. Weaver , C. Wendt , S. Westerhoff , N. Whitehorn , K. Wiebe , C. H. Wiebusch , D. R. Williams , H. Wissing , M. Wolf , T. R. Wood , K. Woschnagg , C. Xu , D. L. Xu , X. W. Xu , J. P. Yanez , G. Yodh , S. Yoshida , P. Zarzhitsky , J. Ziemann , A. Zilles , M. Zoll

Monte Carlo Event Generators

Monte Carlo event generators are in a modern terminology the digital twins of collider-based particle physics experiment. We give an introduction into the application of MC generators for particle physics, discuss their different components…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 Jürgen Reuter

Charm particle production in hadronic collisions

We study charm particle production in hadron-hadron collisions. After calculating perturbatively the charm quark differential cross section, we study the hadronization mechanisms. It is shown that recombination is the key to understand the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Avila , J. Magnin , L. M. Mendoza-Navas

Muon Charge Ratio of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays

The muon charge ratio of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays may provide information to detect the composition of the primary cosmic rays. We propose to extract the charge information of high energy muons in very inclined extensive air showers by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bo-Qiang Ma

Charm quark and meson production in association with single-jet at the LHC

We discuss charm quark/antiquark and charmed meson production in association with one extra jet (gluon, quark, antiquark) at the LHC. The calculations are performed both in collinear and $k_T$-factorization approaches. Different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 Rafal Maciula , Antoni Szczurek

Search for UHE gamma photons in cosmic rays by studying the geomagnetic influence on air-shower muons

A major challenge in ground-based ultra-high-energy gamma-ray observations remains in discriminating sporadic gamma-ray signals from a huge background of cosmic-ray events. To achieve good discrimination power of gamma rays against protons,…

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Impact of intrinsic charm amount in the nucleon and saturation effects on the prompt atmospheric $\nu_{\mu}$ flux for IceCube

The predictions for the atmospheric neutrino flux at high energies strongly depend on the contribution of prompt neutrinos, which are determined by the production of charmed meson in the atmosphere at very forward rapidities. In this paper…

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Reconstruction of air shower muon lateral distribution functions using integrator and binary modes of underground muon detectors

The investigation of cosmic rays holds significant importance in the realm of particle physics, enabling us to expand our understanding beyond atomic confines. However, the origin and characteristics of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays remain…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 V. V. Kizakke Covilakam , A. D. Supanitsky , D. Ravignani

Multiple Production, Transport in Atmosphere and Detection of High Energy Cosmic Rays

We describe the general aspects of Monte Carlo Collision Generators suitable for cosmic ray nucleon-Air and nuclei-Air interactions, including accelerator and collider data. The problem of the extrapolation at 3 energy decades above the LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Jean-Noël Capdevielle , Fabrice Cohen , Corentin Le Gall

Mass Composition of Cosmic Rays with Combined Surface Detector Arrays

Our study exploits the Constant Intensity Cut principles applied simultaneously to muonic and electromagnetic detectors of cosmic rays. We use the fact that the ordering of events according to their signal sizes induced in different types…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-22 Jakub Vicha , Dalibor Nosek , Petr Travnicek , Jan Ebr

Measurements and tests of hadronic interactions at ultra-high energies with the Pierre Auger Observatory

Extensive air showers are complex objects, resulting of billions of particle reactions initiated by single cosmic ray at ultra-high-energy. Their characteristics are sensitive both to the mass of the primary cosmic ray and to the details of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Lorenzo Cazon

Energy Release in Air Showers

A simulation study of the energy released in air due to the development of an extensive air shower has been carried out using the CORSIKA code. The contributions to the energy release from different particle species and energies as well as…

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About chemical composition of the primary cosmic radiation at ultra-high energies

The fluxes of electrons, positrons, gammas, Cherenkov photons and muons in individual extensive air showers induced by the primary protons and helium, oxygen and iron nuclei at the level of observation have been estimated with help of the…

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Muons in EAS with E>=10^17eV according to the data from Yakutsk array

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Prompt atmospheric neutrino flux

We evaluate the prompt atmospheric neutrino flux including nuclear correction and $B$ hadron contribution in the different frameworks: NLO perturbative QCD and dipole models. The nuclear effect is larger in the prompt neutrino flux than in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-17 Yu Seon Jeong , Atri Bhattacharya , Rikard Enberg , C. S. Kim , Mary Hall Reno , Ina Sarcevic , Anna Stasto

Muon pair production by photons in atmosphere: Is any room left for high-energy muon astronomy?

Production of muon pairs by high-energy photons in electromagnetic and hadronic showers in atmosphere has been calculated. The effect of muon pair production in hadronic Extensive Air Showers (EAS) is unlikely to be seen by next generation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 V. A. Kudryavtsev

Measurement of charm production in neutrino charged-current interactions

The nuclear emulsion target of the CHORUS detector was exposed to the wide-band neutrino beam of the CERN SPS of 27 GeV average neutrino energy from 1994 to 1997. In total about 100000 charged-current neutrino interactions with at least one…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Kayis-Topaksu , G. Önengüt , R. van Dantzig , M. de Jong , R. G. C. Oldeman , M. Güler , U. Köse , P. Tolun , M. G. Catanesi , M. T. Muciaccia , K. Winter , B. Van de Vyver , P. Vilain , G. Wilquet , B. Saitta , E. Di Capua , S. Ogawa , H. Shibuya , I. R. Hristova , T. Kawamura , D. Kolev , H. Meinhard , J. Panman , A. Rozanov , R. Tsenov , J. W. E. Uiterwijk , P. Zucchelli , J. Goldberg , M. Chikawa , J. S. Song , C. S. Yoon , K. Kodama , N. Ushida , S. Aoki , T. Hara , T. Delbar , D. Favart , G. Grégoire , S. Kalinin , I. Makhlioueva , A. Artamonov , P. Gorbunov , V. Khovansky , V. Shamanov , I. Tsukerman , N. Bruski , D. Frekers , K. Hoshino , J. Kawada , M. Komatsu , M. Miyanishi , M. Nakamura , T. Nakano , K. Narita , K. Niu , K. Niwa , N. Nonaka , O. Sato , T. Toshito , S. Buontempo , A. G. Cocco , N. D'Ambrosio , G. De Lellis , G. De Rosa , F. Di Capua , G. Fiorillo , A. Marotta , M. Messina , P. Migliozzi , L. Scotto Lavina , P. Strolin , V. Tioukov , T. Okusawa , U. Dore , P. F. Loverre , L. Ludovici , G. Rosa , R. Santacesaria , A. Satta , F. R. Spada , E. Barbuto , C. Bozza , G. Grella , G. Romano , C. Sirignano , S. Sorrentino , Y. Sato , I. Tezuka