Charm Production and High Energy Atmospheric Muon and Neutrino Fluxes

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1995-05-30

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9505417v2

Astropart.Phys.5:309-332,1996

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

30 pages, 13 postscript figures, available at http://www3.tsl.uu.se/thep/papers/TSL-ISV-95-0120.ps.gz

Scientific paper

10.1016/0927-6505(96)00033-3

Production of muons and neutrinos in cosmic ray interactions with the atmosphere has been investigated with Monte Carlo models for hadronic interactions. The resulting conventional muon and neutrino fluxes (from $\pi$ and $K$ decays) agree well with earlier calculations, whereas our prompt fluxes from charm decays are significantly lower than earlier estimates. Charm production is mainly considered as a well defined perturbative QCD process, but we also investigate a hypothetical non-perturbative intrinsic charm component in the proton. The lower charm rate implies better prospects for detecting very high energy neutrinos from cosmic sources.

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