Explanation for the low flux of high-energy astrophysical muon neutrinos

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 17, 2013, Pages

  Pakvasa, Sandip ^a   Joshipura, Anjan ^b   Mohanty, Subhendra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTANT SOURCE; ENERGY REGIONS; ICE CUBES; LOW FLUX; MUON NEUTRINO;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; NEUTRONS;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 84877780276     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.171802     Document Type: Article

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