Atmospheric lepton fluxes at ultrahigh energies

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Illana, José Ignacio ^a   Masip, Manuel ^a   Meloni, Davide ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray theory; Ultra high energy cosmic rays; Ultra high energy photons and neutrinos

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350706066     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/09/008     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Particle Data Group collaboration, C. Amsler et al., 2008 Review of particle physics, Phys. Lett. B 667 1
2. K. Greisen, 1960 Cosmic Ray Showers, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 10 63
3. P. Lipari, 1993 Lepton spectra in the earth's atmosphere, Astropart. Phys. 1 195
4. S.J. Sciutto, 2001 The AIRES system for air shower simulations. An update, in Proceedings of the 27th ICRC, Hamburg Copernicus Gesellschafr, Hamburg 2001, Vol. 1, pg. 237
5. see also http://www.fisica.unlp.edu.ar/auger/aires
6. D. Heck, G. Schatz, T. Thouw, J. Knapp and J.N. Capdevielle, 1998 CORSIKA: A Monte Carlo code to simulate extensive air showers, Report FZKA-6019, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
7. http://www-ik.fzk.de/corsika
8. C.G.S. Costa, 2001 The prompt lepton cookbook, Astropart. Phys. 16 193 [hep-ph/0010306]
9. L.V. Volkova, W. Fulgione, P. Galeotti and O. Saavedra, 1987 Prompt muon production in cosmic rays, Nuovo Cim. C 10 465
10. E.V. Bugaev et al., 1998 Atmospheric muon flux at sea level, underground and underwater, Phys. Rev. D 58 054001 [hep-ph/9803488]
11. P. Gondolo, G. Ingelman and M. Thunman, 1996 Charm production and high energy atmospheric muon and neutrino fluxes, Astropart. Phys. 5 309 [hep-ph/9505417]
12. E. Zas, F. Halzen and R.A. Vazquez, 1993 High-energy neutrino astronomy: Horizontal air shower arrays versus underground detectors, Astropart. Phys. 1 297
13. L. Pasquali, M.H. Reno and I. Sarcevic, 1999 Lepton fluxes from atmospheric charm, Phys. Rev. D 59 034020 [hep-ph/9806428]
14. G. Gelmini, P. Gondolo and G. Varieschi, 2000 Prompt atmospheric neutrinos and muons: Dependence on the gluon distribution function, Phys. Rev. D 61 056011 [hep-ph/9905377]
15. R. Enberg, M.H. Reno and I. Sarcevic, 2008 Prompt neutrino fluxes from atmospheric charm, Phys. Rev. D 78 043005 [0806.0418]
16. A.A. Kochanov, T.S. Sinegovskaya, S.I. Sinegovsky, A. Misaki and N. Takahashi, Atmospheric muon flux at the PeV scale, [0906.3791]
17. IceCube collaboration, J. Ahrens et al., 2004 Sensitivity of the IceCube detector to astrophysical sources of high energy muon neutrinos, Astropart. Phys. 20 507 [astro-ph/0305196]
18. P. Berghaus, Muons in IceCube, [0902.0021]
19. S. Ando, J.F. Beacom, S. Profumo and D. Rainwater, 2008 Probing new physics with long-lived charged particles produced by atmospheric and astrophysical neutrinos J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. JCAP04(2008)029 [0711.2908]
20. M. Ahlers, J.I. Illana, M. Masip and D. Meloni, 2007 Long-lived Staus from Cosmic Rays J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. JCAP08(2007)008 [0705.3782]
21. J.I. Illana, M. Masip and D. Meloni, 2007 New physics from ultrahigh energy cosmic rays, Phys. Rev. D 75 055002 [hep-ph/0611036]
22. T. Sjöstrand, S. Mrenna and P. Skands, 2006 PYTHIA 6.4 Physics and Manual J. High Energy Phys. JHEP05(2006)026 [hep-ph/0603175]
23. A.D. Martin, M.G. Ryskin and A.M. Stasto, 2003 Prompt neutrinos from atmospheric c and b production and the gluon at very small x, Acta Phys. Polon. B 34 3273 [hep-ph/0302140]
24. O.G. Ryazhskaya, L.V. Volkova and G.T. Zatsepin, 2005 Possible charm production and direct muon contribution to EAS at very high energies, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 20 6971
25. A. Donnachie and P.V. Landshoff, 1992 Total cross-sections, Phys. Lett. B 296 227 [hep-ph/9209205]
26. G.A. Schuler and T. Sjöstrand, 1994 Hadronic diffractive cross-sections and the rise of the total cross-section, Phys. Rev. D 49 2257
27. B. Andersson, G. Gustafson, G. Ingelman and T. Sjöstrand, 1983 Parton Fragmentation and String Dynamics, Phys. Rept. 97 31
28. L. Pasquali and M.H. Reno, 1999 Tau neutrino fluxes from atmospheric charm, Phys. Rev. D 59 093003 [hep-ph/9811268]
29. C.G.S. Costa, F. Halzen and C. Salles, 2002 The prompt TeV-PeV atmospheric neutrino window, Phys. Rev. D 66 113002 [hep-ph/0104039]
30. F.-F. Lee and G.-L. Lin, 2006 A Semi-analytic calculation on the atmospheric tau neutrino flux in the GeV to TeV range, Astropart. Phys. 25 64 [hep-ph/0412383]
31. I.F.M. Albuquerque, G. Burdman and Z. Chacko, 2007 Direct Detection of Supersymmetric Particles in Neutrino Telescopes, Phys. Rev. D 75 035006 [hep-ph/0605120]
32. M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia, M. Maltoni and J. Rojo, 2006 Determination of the atmospheric neutrino fluxes from atmospheric neutrino data J. High Energy Phys. JHEP10(2006)075 [hep-ph/0607324]