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Lepton Fluxes from Atmospheric Charm
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Lepton Fluxes from Atmospheric Charm

L Pasquali, M. H Reno and I Sarcevic
Physical review. D, Particles and fields, Vol.59(3), pp.1-10
06/20/1998
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.034020
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9806428View
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Phys.Rev.D59:034020,1999 We reexamine the charm contribution to atmospheric lepton fluxes in the context of perturbative QCD. We include next-to-leading order corrections and discuss theoretical uncertainties due to the extrapolations of the gluon distributions at small-x. We show that the charm contribution to the atmospheric muon flux becomes dominant over the conventional contribution from pion and kaon decays at energies of about 10^5 GeV. We compare our fluxes with previous calculations.
Physics - High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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