Fluxes of atmospheric neutrinos and related cosmic rays

✍ Scribed by T.K. Gaisser

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 553 KB
• Volume: 77
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(99)00408-9

✦ Synopsis

The atmospheric neutrino beam simultaneously spans a range of pathlengths from ten to ten thousand kilometers, which correspond respectively to downward-and upward-going neutrinos. As with any neutrino oscillation experiment, also in this case the interpretation of the data depends on a detailed knowledge of the neutrino beam. The ingredients are the primary spectrum of cosmlc-ray nucleons, the geomagnetic fields in which the charged particles propagate and the properties of interactions of hadrons in the atmosphere. In this talk I review the status of calculations in light of the recent evidence for neutrino oscillations from Super-Kamiokande [1].