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Garcia Soto, A.; Zhelnin, P.; Safa, I.; Arguelles, C.A. |
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Tau Appearance from High-Energy Neutrino Interactions |
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2022 |
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Physical Review Letters |
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Phys. Rev. Lett. |
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128 |
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17 |
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171101 - 7pp |
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High-energy muon and electron neutrinos yield a non-negligible flux of tau neutrinos as they propagate through Earth. In this Letter, we address the impact of this additional component in the PeV and EeV energy regimes for the first time. Above 300 TeV, this contribution is predicted to be significantly larger than the atmospheric background, and it alters current and future neutrino telescopes' capabilities to discover a cosmic tau-neutrino flux. Further, we demonstrate that Earth-skimming neutrino experiments, designed to observe tau neutrinos, will be sensitive to cosmogenic neutrinos even in extreme scenarios without a primary tau-neutrino component. |
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[Soto, A. Garcia; Zhelnin, P.; Safa, I; Arguelles, C. A.] Harvard Univ, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA, Email: alfonsogarciasoto@fas.harvard.edu; |
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Arguelles, C.A.; Palomares-Ruiz, S.; Schneider, A.; Wille, L.; Yuan, T.L. |
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Unified atmospheric neutrino passing fractions for large-scale neutrino telescopes |
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2018 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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07 |
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7 |
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047 - 41pp |
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neutrino detectors; neutrino experiments; ultra high energy photons and neutrinos |
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The atmospheric neutrino passing fraction, or self-veto, is defined as the probability for an atmospheric neutrino not to be accompanied by a detectable muon from the same cosmic-ray air shower. Building upon previous work, we propose a redefinition of the passing fractions by unifying the treatment for muon and electron neutrinos. Several approximations have also been removed. This enables performing detailed estimations of the uncertainties in the passing fractions from several inputs: muon losses, cosmic-ray spectrum, hadronic-interaction models and atmosphere-density profiles. We also study the passing fractions under variations of the detector configuration: depth, surrounding medium and muon veto trigger probability. The calculation exhibits excellent agreement with passing fractions obtained from Monte Carlo simulations. Finally, we provide a general software framework to implement this veto technique for all large-scale neutrino observatories. |
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[Arguelle, Carlos A.] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA, Email: caad@mit.edu; |
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WOS:000439590200003 |
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