Enhanced signal of astrophysical tau neutrinos propagating through Earth
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Enhanced signal of astrophysical tau neutrinos propagating through Earth
Earth absorbs ne and nm of energies above about 100 TeV. As is well known, although nt will also disappear through charged-current interactions, the nt flux will be regenerated by prompt tau decays. We show that this process also produces relatively large fluxes of secondary n̄e and n̄m , greatly enhancing the detectability of the initial nt . This is particularly important because at these energ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review D
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0556-2821,1089-4918
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.66.021302