Atmospheric Neutrinos
Atmospheric neutrinos are produced as decay products in hadronic showers resulting from collisions of cosmic rays with nuclei in the atmosphere. Electron-neutrinos and muon-neutrinos are produced mainly by the decay chain of charged pions to muons to electrons. Atmospheric neutrino experiments obser...
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| description | Atmospheric neutrinos are produced as decay products in hadronic showers resulting from collisions of cosmic rays with nuclei in the atmosphere. Electron-neutrinos and muon-neutrinos are produced mainly by the decay chain of charged pions to muons to electrons. Atmospheric neutrino experiments observed zenith angle and energy-dependent deficit of muon-neutrino events. It was found that neutrino oscillations between muon-neutrinos and tau-neutrinos explain these data well. This paper discusses atmospheric neutrino experiments and the neutrino oscillation studies with these neutrinos. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8b75f3bfef73448a9271ac676eac04b42025-02-03T01:31:50ZengWileyAdvances in High Energy Physics1687-73571687-73652012-01-01201210.1155/2012/504715504715Atmospheric NeutrinosTakaaki Kajita0Institute for Cosmic Ray Research and Kavli-IPMU, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa-no-ha 5-1-5, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, JapanAtmospheric neutrinos are produced as decay products in hadronic showers resulting from collisions of cosmic rays with nuclei in the atmosphere. Electron-neutrinos and muon-neutrinos are produced mainly by the decay chain of charged pions to muons to electrons. Atmospheric neutrino experiments observed zenith angle and energy-dependent deficit of muon-neutrino events. It was found that neutrino oscillations between muon-neutrinos and tau-neutrinos explain these data well. This paper discusses atmospheric neutrino experiments and the neutrino oscillation studies with these neutrinos.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/504715 |
| spellingShingle | Takaaki Kajita Atmospheric Neutrinos Advances in High Energy Physics |
| title | Atmospheric Neutrinos |
| title_full | Atmospheric Neutrinos |
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| title_short | Atmospheric Neutrinos |
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| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/504715 |
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