Astrophysical and atmospheric neutrinos
Thesis/Dissertation
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OSTI ID:6839437
The low energy (<200 MeV) atmospheric neutrino flux is calculated by a three-dimensional Monte Carlo cascade in order to estimate the backgrounds for low energy astrophysical neutrino detections. The author finds that the atmospheric neutrino flux is a significant background and allows only a narrow neutrino astronomy window at 14-30 MeV for the continuous flux of neutrinos from relic supernova explosions. The calculations includes the geomagnetic latitude dependence of detector site and the angular dependence of neutrino detection direction as an extension to the one-dimensional calculation for use in future neutrino oscillation experiments with atmospheric neutrinos. The atmospheric muon flux calculation, a by-product of this three-dimensional atmospheric neutrino calculation, agrees with the measurement at sea-level within 10% accuracy. The author also calculates the medium energy (300 MeV less than or equal to E/sub nu/ less than or equal to 3 GeV) atmospheric neutrino flux by a one-dimensional Monte Carlo cascade in order to find the backgrounds for underground nucleon decay experiments and for neutrino oscillation tests with atmospheric neutrinos. Experiments at different latitudes have already confirmed both the atmospheric neutrino fluxes to about 20% accuracy and the gross features of the neutrino angular distribution. As well, the authors calculate the ultra-high energy (>1 TeV) astrophysical neutrino flux by a nearly model-independent analytic method for estimate the ultra-high energy neutrino flux from active astrophysical compact objects by comparison with the observed gamma ray flux at comparable energies. Applied to several known gamma ray sources, the calculation shows the neutrino flux from them to be only marginally detectable by DUMAND-size underwater detectors.
- Research Organization:
- Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6839437
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
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ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION
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COSMIC MUONS
COSMIC NEUTRINOS
COSMIC RADIATION
DATA
DISTRIBUTION
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
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INFORMATION
IONIZING RADIATIONS
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NEUTRINOS
NUMERICAL DATA
RADIATION FLUX
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THEORETICAL DATA
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GENERAL PHYSICS
ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION
BACKGROUND RADIATION
COSMIC MUONS
COSMIC NEUTRINOS
COSMIC RADIATION
DATA
DISTRIBUTION
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FERMIONS
INFORMATION
IONIZING RADIATIONS
LEPTONS
MASSLESS PARTICLES
MONTE CARLO METHOD
MUONS
NEUTRINOS
NUMERICAL DATA
RADIATION FLUX
RADIATIONS
THEORETICAL DATA