Charm Production and High Energy Atmospheric Muon and Neutrino Fluxes

Abstract

Production of muons and neutrinos in cosmic ray interactions with the atmosphere has been investigated with Monte Carlo models for hadronic interactions. The resulting conventional muon and neutrino fluxes (from $\pi$ and $K$ decays) agree well with earlier calculations, whereas our prompt fluxes from charm decays are significantly lower than earlier estimates. Charm production is mainly considered as a well defined perturbative QCD process, but we also investigate a hypothetical non-perturbative intrinsic charm component in the proton. The lower charm rate implies better prospects for detecting very high energy neutrinos from cosmic sources.

30 pages, 13 postscript figures, available at http://www3.tsl.uu.se/thep/papers/TSL-ISV-95-0120.ps.gz

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