TY  - JOUR
AU  - Arguelles, C. A.
AU  - Palomares-Ruiz, S.
AU  - Schneider, A.
AU  - Wille, L.
AU  - Yuan, T. L.
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - Unified atmospheric neutrino passing fractions for large-scale neutrino telescopes
T2  - J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
JO  - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
SP  - 047
EP  - 41pp
VL  - 07
IS  - 7
PB  - Iop Publishing Ltd
KW  - neutrino detectors
KW  - neutrino experiments
KW  - ultra high energy photons and neutrinos
AB  - 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.
SN  - 1475-7516
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11003
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2018/07/047
DO  - 10.1088/1475-7516/2018/07/047
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000439590200003
ID  - Arguelles_etal2018
ER  -