Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-01-12
Phys.Rev.Lett. 82 (1999) 5194-5197
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages,3 figures revtex, submitted to PRL
Scientific paper
The east-west anisotropy, caused by the deflection of primary cosmic rays in the Earth's magnetic field, is observed for the first time in the flux of atmospheric neutrinos. Using a 45 kt-year exposure of the Super-Kamiokande detector, 552 e-like and 633 mu-like horizontally-going events are selected in the momentum range between 400 and 3000 MeV/c. The azimuthal distribution of e-like and mu-like events agrees with the expectation from atmospheric neutrino flux calculations that account for the geomagnetic field, verifying that the geomagnetic field effects in the production of atmospheric neutrinos in the GeV energy range are well understood.
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