Complete predictions for high-energy neutrino propagation in matter

Abstract

We present predictions for the interactions of energetic neutrinos with matter as they propagate through Earth towards large-volume detectors. Our results are based on state-of-the-art calculations of the high-energy neutrino-matter interaction cross-sections, which we have implemented in the HEDIS module of GENIE. In addition to the dominant interaction process, deep inelastic scattering off quarks and gluons, we include the relevant subdominant channels: (in)elastic scattering off the photon field of nucleons, coherent scattering off the photon field of nuclei, as well as the scattering on atomic electrons via the Glashow resonance. Our predictions for the neutrino attenuation rates are provided by a new software package, NuPropEarth. We quantify the dependence of our results on the cross-section model, including nuclear corrections, the incidence angle, and the spectral index, and compare them with other publicly available tools.

arXiv commentMatches published version. v2 extended discussion, updated nuclear corrections with nNNPDF2.0, appendix with discussion on neutrino-nucleon cross-section settings. NuPropEarth code available at https://github.com/pochoarus/NuPropEarth

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