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Atmospheric Neutrinos

Author(s) -

T. Kajita

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

advances in high energy physics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.59

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 1687-7365

pISSN - 1687-7357

DOI - 10.1155/2012/504715

Subject(s) - physics , neutrino , muon , solar neutrino , particle physics , solar neutrino problem , cosmic neutrino background , measurements of neutrino speed , muon neutrino , neutrino oscillation , nuclear physics , zenith , cosmic ray , neutrino detector , neutrino astronomy , tau neutrino , optics

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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