Simulation of atmospheric muon and neutrino fluxes with CORSIKA

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Wentz, Jürgen ^a   Brancus, Iliana M ^a   Bercuci, Alexandru ^b   Heck, Dieter ^b   Oehlschläger, Jürgen ^b   Rebel, Heinigerd ^b   Vulpescu, Bogdan ^c  

^a HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CALCULATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; ENERGY; GEOGRAPHY; LATITUDE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARAMETER; SEASON; SIMULATION; SOLAR ENERGY; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 4344638702     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.67.073020     Document Type: Article

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