The Glashow resonance at IceCube: Signatures, event rates and pp vs. pγ interactions

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Bhattacharya, Atri ^a   Gandhi, Raj ^a   Rodejohann, Werner ^b   Watanabe, Atsushi ^a,c  

^a HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cosmic ray theory; neutrino astronomy; neutrino detectors; neutrino experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 80555131799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/10/017     Document Type: Article

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