Atmospheric muon flux at PeV energies

DOI10.1142/S0217751X10049748MaRDI QIDQ3590702zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 13 September 2010

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3791

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic ray muonshigh-energy hadronic interactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

Abstract: In the near future the energy region above few hundreds of TeV may really be accessible for measurements of the atmospheric muon spectrum by the IceCube array. Therefore one expects that muon flux uncertainties above 50 TeV, related to a poor knowledge of charm production cross sections and insufficiently examined primary spectra and composition, will be diminished. We give predictions for the very high-energy muon spectrum at sea level, obtained with the three hadronic interaction models, taking into account also the muon contribution due to decays of the charmed hadrons.

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