Journal article
Tau neutrino propagation and tau energy loss
Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, Vol.72(1), pp.1-10
04/22/2005
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.013005
Abstract
Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 013005 Electromagnetic energy loss of tau leptons is an important ingredient for
eventual tau neutrino detection from high energy astrophysical sources.
Proposals have been made to use mountains as neutrino converters, in which the
emerging tau decays in an air shower. We use a stochastic evaluation of both
tau neutrino conversion to taus and of tau electromagnetic energy loss. We
examine the effects of the propagation for mono-energetic incident tau
neutrinos as well as for several neutrino power-law spectra. Our main result is
a parameterization of the tau electromagnetic energy loss parameter beta. We
compare our analytic expression for the tau flux using this beta with other
parameterizations of beta.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Tau neutrino propagation and tau energy loss
- Creators
- Sharada Iyer Dutta - Stony Brook UniversityYiwen Huang - University of IowaMary Hall Reno - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, Vol.72(1), pp.1-10
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.013005
- ISSN
- 1550-7998
- eISSN
- 1550-2368
- Publisher
- American Physical Society
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/22/2005
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984199929802771
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