High energy leptons from muons in transit
Abstract
The differential energy distribution for electrons and taus produced from lepton pair production from muons in transit through materials is numerically evaluated. We use the differential cross section to calculate underground lepton fluxes from an incident atmospheric muon flux, considering contributions from both conventional and prompt fluxes. An approximate form for the charged current differential neutrino cross section is provided and used to calculate single lepton production from atmospheric neutrinos. We compare the fluxes of underground leptons produced from incident muons with those produced from incident neutrinos and photons from muon bremsstrahlung. We discuss their relevance for underground detectors.
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@article{arxiv.0912.1385,
title = {High energy leptons from muons in transit},
author = {Alexander Bulmahn and Mary Hall Reno},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.1385},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
11 pages, 9 figures v2: Revised to include the calculation of muon bremsstrahlung events in comparison to pair production events. 1 new figure