Influence of hadronic interaction models and the cosmic ray spectrum on the high energy atmospheric muon and neutrino flux

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Fedynitch, Anatoli ^a   Becker Tjus, Julia ^a   Desiati, Paolo ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 84871561311     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.114024     Document Type: Article

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