Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-07-19
Astropart.Phys.12:315-333,2000
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
27 pages, 14 figures. To be submitted to Astroparticle Physics. To be submitted to Astroparticle Physics
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0927-6505(99)00110-3
An extensive 3-dimensional Monte Carlo calculation of the atmospheric neutrino flux is in progress with the FLUKA Monte Carlo code. The results are compared to those obtained under the 1-dimensional approximation, where secondary particles and decay products are assumed to be collinear to the primary cosmic ray, as usually done in most of the already existing flux calculations. It is shown that the collinear approximation gives rise to a wrong angular distribution of neutrinos, essentially in the Sub-GeV region. However, the angular smearing introduced by the experimental inability of detecting recoils in neutrino interactions with nuclei is large enough to wash out, in practice, most of the differences between 3-dimensional and 1-dimensional flux calculations. Therefore, the use of the collinear approximation should have not introduced a significant bias in the determination of the flavor oscillation parameters in current experiments.
Battistoni Giuseppe
Ferrari Aldo
Lipari Paolo
Montaruli Teresa
Rancati T.
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