Related papers: Atmospheric Lepton Fluxes

Observation of high-energy neutrinos from the Galactic plane

The origin of high-energy cosmic rays, atomic nuclei that continuously impact Earth's atmosphere, has been a mystery for over a century. Due to deflection in interstellar magnetic fields, cosmic rays from the Milky Way arrive at Earth from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-11 R. Abbasi , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , M. Ahrens , J. M. Alameddine , A. A. Alves , N. M. Amin , K. Andeen , T. Anderson , G. Anton , C. Argüelles , Y. Ashida , S. Athanasiadou , S. Axani , X. Bai , A. Balagopal V. , S. W. Barwick , V. Basu , S. Baur , R. Bay , J. J. Beatty , K. -H. Becker , J. Becker Tjus , J. Beise , C. Bellenghi , S. Benda , S. BenZvi , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , D. Z. Besson , G. Binder , D. Bindig , E. Blaufuss , S. Blot , M. Boddenberg , F. Bontempo , J. Y. Book , J. Borowka , S. Böser , O. Botner , J. Böttcher , E. Bourbeau , F. Bradascio , J. Braun , B. Brinson , S. Bron , J. Brostean-Kaiser , R. T. Burley , R. S. Busse , M. A. Campana , E. G. Carnie-Bronca , C. Chen , Z. Chen , D. Chirkin , K. Choi , B. A. Clark , K. Clark , L. Classen , A. Coleman , G. H. Collin , A. Connolly , J. M. Conrad , P. Coppin , P. Correa , D. F. Cowen , R. Cross , C. Dappen , P. Dave , C. De Clercq , J. J. DeLaunay , D. Delgado López , H. Dembinski , K. Deoskar , A. Desai , P. Desiati , K. D. de Vries , G. de Wasseige , T. DeYoung , A. Diaz , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , M. Dittmer , H. Dujmovic , M. Dunkman , M. A. DuVernois , T. Ehrhardt , P. Eller , R. Engel , H. Erpenbeck , J. Evans , P. A. Evenson , K. L. Fan , A. R. Fazely , A. Fedynitch , N. Feigl , S. Fiedlschuster , A. T. Fienberg , C. Finley , L. Fischer , D. Fox , A. Franckowiak , E. Friedman , A. Fritz , P. Fürst , T. K. Gaisser , J. Gallagher , E. Ganster , A. Garcia , S. Garrappa , L. Gerhardt , A. Ghadimi , C. Glaser , T. Glauch , T. Glüsenkamp , N. Goehlke , A. Goldschmidt , J. G. Gonzalez , S. Goswami , D. Grant , T. Grégoire , S. Griswold , C. Günther , P. Gutjahr , C. Haack , A. Hallgren , R. Halliday , L. Halve , F. Halzen , M. Ha Minh , K. Hanson , J. Hardin , A. A. Harnisch , A. Haungs , K. Helbing , F. Henningsen , E. C. Hettinger , S. Hickford , J. Hignight , C. Hill , G. C. Hill , K. D. Hoffman , K. Hoshina , W. Hou , F. Huang , M. Huber , T. Huber , K. Hultqvist , M. Hünnefeld , R. Hussain , K. Hymon , S. In , N. Iovine , A. Ishihara , M. Jansson , G. S. Japaridze , M. Jeong , M. Jin , B. J. P. Jones , D. Kang , W. Kang , X. Kang , A. Kappes , D. Kappesser , L. Kardum , T. Karg , M. Karl , A. Karle , U. Katz , M. Kauer , M. Kellermann , J. L. Kelley , A. Kheirandish , K. Kin , J. Kiryluk , S. R. Klein , A. Kochocki , R. Koirala , H. Kolanoski , T. Kontrimas , L. Köpke , C. Kopper , S. Kopper , D. J. Koskinen , P. Koundal , M. Kovacevich , M. Kowalski , T. Kozynets , E. Krupczak , E. Kun , N. Kurahashi , N. Lad , C. Lagunas Gualda , J. L. Lanfranchi , M. J. Larson , F. Lauber , J. P. Lazar , J. W. Lee , K. Leonard , A. Leszczyńska , Y. Li , M. Lincetto , Q. R. Liu , M. Liubarska , E. Lohfink , C. J. Lozano Mariscal , L. Lu , F. Lucarelli , A. Ludwig , W. Luszczak , Y. Lyu , W. Y. Ma , J. Madsen , K. B. M. Mahn , Y. Makino , S. Mancina , I. C. Mariş , I. Martinez-Soler , R. Maruyama , S. McCarthy , T. McElroy , F. McNally , J. V. Mead , K. Meagher , S. Mechbal , A. Medina , M. Meier , S. Meighen-Berger , Y. Merckx , J. Micallef , D. Mockler , T. Montaruli , R. W. Moore , K. Morik , R. Morse , M. Moulai , T. Mukherjee , R. Naab , R. Nagai , R. Nahnhauer , U. Naumann , J. Necker , L. V. Nguyen , H. Niederhausen , M. U. Nisa , S. C. Nowicki , D. Nygren , A. Obertacke Pollmann , M. Oehler , B. Oeyen , A. Olivas , E. O'Sullivan , H. Pandya , D. V. Pankova , N. Park , G. K. Parker , E. N. Paudel , L. Paul , C. Pérez de los Heros , L. Peters , J. Peterson , S. Philippen , S. Pieper , A. Pizzuto , M. Plum , Y. Popovych , A. Porcelli , M. Prado Rodriguez , B. Pries , G. T. Przybylski , C. Raab , J. Rack-Helleis , A. Raissi , M. Rameez , K. Rawlins , I. C. Rea , Z. Rechav , A. Rehman , P. Reichherzer , R. Reimann , G. Renzi , E. Resconi , S. Reusch , W. Rhode , M. Richman , B. Riedel , E. J. Roberts , S. Robertson , G. Roellinghoff , M. Rongen , C. Rott , T. Ruhe , D. Ryckbosch , D. Rysewyk Cantu , I. Safa , J. Saffer , D. Salazar-Gallegos , P. Sampathkumar , S. E. Sanchez Herrera , A. Sandrock , M. Santander , S. Sarkar , S. Sarkar , K. Satalecka , M. Schaufel , H. Schieler , S. Schindler , T. Schmidt , A. Schneider , J. Schneider , F. G. Schröder , L. Schumacher , G. Schwefer , S. Sclafani , D. Seckel , S. Seunarine , A. Sharma , S. Shefali , N. Shimizu , M. Silva , B. Skrzypek , B. Smithers , R. Snihur , J. Soedingrekso , A. Sogaard , D. Soldin , C. Spannfellner , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , M. Stamatikos , T. Stanev , R. Stein , J. Stettner , T. Stezelberger , B. Stokstad , T. Stürwald , T. Stuttard , G. W. Sullivan , I. Taboada , S. Ter-Antonyan , J. Thwaites , S. Tilav , F. Tischbein , K. Tollefson , C. Tönnis , S. Toscano , D. Tosi , A. Trettin , M. Tselengidou , C. F. Tung , A. Turcati , R. Turcotte , C. F. Turley , J. P. Twagirayezu , B. Ty , M. A. Unland Elorrieta , N. Valtonen-Mattila , J. Vandenbroucke , N. van Eijndhoven , D. Vannerom , J. van Santen , J. Veitch-Michaelis , S. Verpoest , C. Walck , W. Wang , T. B. Watson , C. Weaver , P. Weigel , A. Weindl , M. J. Weiss , J. Weldert , C. Wendt , J. Werthebach , M. Weyrauch , N. Whitehorn , C. H. Wiebusch , N. Willey , D. R. Williams , M. Wolf , G. Wrede , J. Wulff , X. W. Xu , J. P. Yanez , E. Yildizci , S. Yoshida , S. Yu , T. Yuan , Z. Zhang , P. Zhelnin

New MACRO results on atmospheric neutrino oscillations

The final results of the MACRO experiment on atmospheric neutrino oscillations are presented and discussed. The data concern different event topologies with average neutrino energies of ~3 and ~50 GeV. Multiple Coulomb Scattering of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Giacomelli , A. Margiotta

Determination of the atmospheric neutrino fluxes from experimental data

The precise knowledge of the atmospheric neutrino fluxes is a key ingredient in the interpretation of the results from any atmospheric neutrino experiment. In the standard atmospheric neutrino data analysis, these fluxes are theoretical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , Michele Maltoni , Joan Rojo

High Energy Neutrinos: Sources and Fluxes

We discuss briefly the potential sources of high energy astrophysical neutrinos and show estimates of the neutrino fluxes that they can produce. A special attention is paid to the connection between the highest energy cosmic rays and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Todor Stanev

Searches for and Characterization of Astrophysical Neutrinos using Starting Track Events in IceCube

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer-sized detector designed to detect neutrinos of astrophysical origin. However, muons created by cosmic rays interacting in the atmosphere pose a significant background for these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-22 Sarah Mancina , Manuel Silva

High-energy atmospheric muon flux calculations in comparison with recent measurements

Recently the atmospheric muon spectra at high energies were reconstructed for two ranges of zenith angles, basing on the events collected with the IceCube detector. These measurements reach high energies at which the contribution to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-02 A. A. Kochanov , A. D. Morozova , T. S. Sinegovskaya , S. I. Sinegovsky

A new contribution to the conventional atmospheric neutrino flux

Atmospheric neutrinos are an important background to astrophysical neutrino searches, and are also of considerable interest in their own right. This paper points out that the contribution to conventional atmospheric $\nu_e$ of the rare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Thomas K. Gaisser , Spencer R. Klein

MACRO results on atmospheric neutrinos

We discuss the final results of the MACRO experiment on atmospheric neutrino oscillations. The data concern event topologies with average neutrino energies of ~3 and ~50 GeV. Multiple Coulomb Scattering of the high energy muons was used to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Giacomelli , A. Margiotta

Atmospheric neutrino flux above 1 GeV

In this paper we extend an earlier calculation of the flux of atmospheric neutrinos to higher energy. The earlier calculation of the neutrino flux below 3 GeV has been used for calculation of the rate of contained neutrino interactions in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-21 Vivek Agrawal , T. K. Gaisser , Paolo Lipari , Todor Stanev

Measurement of the Atmospheric $\nu_e$ flux in IceCube

We report the first measurement of the atmospheric electron neutrino flux in the energy range between approximately 80 GeV and 6 TeV, using data recorded during the first year of operation of IceCube's DeepCore low energy extension.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-04-23 IceCube Collaboration , M. G. Aartsen , 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 , S. Bohaichuk , C. Bohm , D. Bose1 , S. Boser , O. Botner , L. Brayeur , A. M. Brown , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , S. Buitink , M. Carson , J. Casey , M. Casier , D. Chirkin , B. Christy , K. Clark , F. Clevermann , S. Cohen , D. F. Cowen , A. H. Cruz Silva , M. Danninger , J. Daughhetee , J. C. Davis , C. De Clercq , S. De Ridder , F. Descamps , P. Desiati , G. de Vries-Uiterweerd , T. DeYoung , J. C. Diaz-Velez , J. Dreyer , J. P. Dumm , M. Dunkman , R. Eagan , B. Eberhardt , J. Eisch , R. W. Ellsworth , O. Engdegard , 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. Glusenkamp , A. Goldschmidt , G. Golup , J. A. Goodman , D. Gora , 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. Klas , S. R. Klein , J. -H. Kohne , G. Kohnen , H. Kolanoski , L. Kopke , C. Kopper , S. Kopper , D. J. Koskinen , M. Kowalski , M. Krasberg , G. Kroll , J. Kunnen , N. Kurahashi , T. Kuwabara , M. Labare , H. Landsman , M. J. Larson , R. Lauer , M. Lesiak-Bzdak , J. Lunemann , J. Madsen , R. Maruyama , K. Mase , H. S. Matis , F. McNally , K. Meagher , M. Merck , P. Meszaros , T. Meures , S. Miarecki , E. Middell , N. Milke , J. Miller , L. Mohrmann , T. Montaruli , R. Morse , R. Nahnhauer , U. Naumann , 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. Perez de los Heros , D. Pieloth , N. Pirk , J. Posselt , P. B. Price , G. T. Przybylski , L. Radel , K. Rawlins , P. Redl , E. Resconi , W. Rhode , M. Ribordy , M. Richman , B. Riedel , J. P. Rodrigues , C. Rott , 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. Schoneberg , L. Schonherr , A. Schonwald , A. Schukraft , L. Schulte , O. Schulz , D. Seckel , S. H. Seo , Y. Sestayo , S. Seunarine , C. Sheremata , 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. Stoss , E. A. Strahler , R. Strom , 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. Voge1 , M. Vraeghe , 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 , S. Zierke , A. Zilles , M. Zoll

Shower Power: Isolating the Prompt Atmospheric Neutrino Flux Using Electron Neutrinos

At high energies, the very steep decrease of the conventional atmospheric component of the neutrino spectrum should allow the emergence of even small and isotropic components of the total spectrum, indicative of new physics, provided that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 John F. Beacom , Julián Candia

Update on Atmospheric Neutrinos

We discuss the impact of recent experimental results on the determination of atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters. We use all published results on atmospheric neutrinos, including the preliminary large statistics data of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , H. Nunokawa , O. L. G. Peres , T. Stanev , J. W. F. Valle

The primary protons and the atmospheric neutrino fluxes

The predictions of the atmospheric nu event rates are affected by significant uncertainties, however the evidence for the `disappearance' of nu_mu's and antinu_mu's obtained by SK and other underground detectors is robust and cannot be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Lipari

A view of prompt atmospheric neutrinos with IceCube

Atmospheric neutrinos are produced in air showers, when cosmic ray primaries hit the Earth's atmosphere and interact hadronically. The conventional neutrino flux, which dominates the neutrino data measured in the GeV to TeV range by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Anne Schukraft

Atmospheric neutrino challenges

We briefly review the improvements in the predictions of atmospheric neutrino fluxes since the NOW2000 workshop. In spite of the great progress in calculational technique the predictions are still not exact because of the uncertainties in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Todor Stanev

Diffuse flux of galactic neutrinos and gamma rays

We calculate the fluxes of neutrinos and gamma rays from interactions of cosmic rays with interstellar matter in our galaxy. We use EPOS-LHC, SIBYLL and GHEISHA to obtain the yield of these particles in proton, helium and iron collisions at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-15 J. M. Carceller , M. Masip

On the relation between the astrophysical neutrino fluxes and the cosmic ray fluxes

Some generalizations of the relation between high-energy astrophysical neutrino and cosmic ray fluxes are obtained, taking into account present results on the cosmic ray spectrum and composition as well as a more realistic modeling of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-06 Esteban Roulet

Uncertainties in Atmospheric Neutrino Fluxes

An evaluation of the principal uncertainties in the computation of neutrino fluxes produced in cosmic ray showers in the atmosphere is presented. The neutrino flux predictions are needed for comparison with experiment to perform neutrino…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. D. Barr , T. K. Gaisser , S. Robbins , T. Stanev

On the relevance of prompt neutrinos for the interpretation of the IceCube signals

The IceCube collaboration has discovered a new, cosmic component of high-energy neutrinos. Although neutrino oscillations suggest that the cosmic neutrino spectrum is almost the same for every neutrino flavor, the attempts to reconstruct…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-02 Carlo Mascaretti , Francesco Vissani

Rigidity dependent knee and cosmic ray induced high energy neutrino fluxes

Scenarios in which the knee of the cosmic ray spectrum depends on the particle rigidities usually predict that the cosmic ray composition becomes heavier above the knee and have associated a change in the spectral slope of each individual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julián Candia , Esteban Roulet