Air Shower Detection of Ultrahigh-energy Muons and Neutrinos

1989
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 40 (1989) 1472-1476

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Abstract: (APS)
We explore the possibility for production of air showers by ultrahigh-energy muons and neutrinos. Such showers must be produced both in the Earth's crust and in the atmosphere. Because of the strong absorption in the Earth the rate of upward-going showers generated by a limiting model of cosmological neutrino flux may be, however, low compared with the background of nearly horizontal muon-generated air showers.
  • NEUTRINO: COSMIC RADIATION
  • MUON: COSMIC RADIATION
  • SHOWERS: AIR
  • COSMIC RADIATION: FLUX
  • FLUX: COSMIC RADIATION
  • COSMIC RADIATION: SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
  • CHARMED PARTICLE: DECAY
  • DECAY: CHARMED PARTICLE
  • NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS