Prompt neutrino fluxes from atmospheric charm

Rikard Enberg; Mary Hall Reno; Ina Sarcevic

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.043005

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Prompt neutrino fluxes from atmospheric charm

Rikard Enberg, Mary Hall Reno and Ina Sarcevic

Physical Review D, Vol.78(4), p.043005

2008

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.043005

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Abstract

We calculate the prompt neutrino flux from atmospheric charm production by cosmic rays, using the dipole picture in a perturbative QCD framework, which incorporates the parton saturation effects present at high energies. We compare our results with the next-to-leading order perturbative QCD result and find that saturation effects are large for neutrino energies above 10^6 GeV, leading to a substantial suppression of the prompt neutrino flux. We comment on the range of prompt neutrino fluxes due to theoretical uncertainties.

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Title: Subtitle: Prompt neutrino fluxes from atmospheric charm
Creators: Rikard Enberg - University of Arizona
Mary Hall Reno - University of Iowa
Ina Sarcevic - University of Arizona
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Physical Review D, Vol.78(4), p.043005
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.043005
ISSN: 1550-7998
eISSN: 1550-2368
Language: English
Date published: 2008
Academic Unit: Physics and Astronomy
Record Identifier: 9984199665702771

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