Secondary atmospheric tau neutrino production

被引：11

作者：

Bulmahn, Alexander ^{[1
]}

Reno, Mary Hall ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Iowa, Dept Phys & Astron, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2010年 / 82卷 / 05期

关键词：

FLUX;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevD.82.057302

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We evaluate the flux of tau neutrinos produced from the decay of pair produced taus from incident muons using a cascade equation analysis. To solve the cascade equations, our numerical result for the tau production Z moment is given. Our results for the flux of tau neutrinos produced from incident muons are compared to the flux of tau neutrinos produced via oscillations and the direct prompt atmospheric tau neutrino flux. Results are given for both downward and upward going neutrinos fluxes and higher zenith angles are discussed. We conclude that the direct prompt atmospheric tau neutrino flux dominates these other atmospheric sources of tau neutrinos for neutrino energies larger than a few TeV for upward fluxes, and over a wider range of energy for downward fluxes.

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