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Seasonal Variation of Atmospheric Leptons as a Probe of Charm

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 105, Issue 12, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.121102

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  1. U.S. National Science Foundation-Office of Polar Programs
  2. Humboldt Foundation
  3. NSF [0856253]
  4. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
  5. Division Of Physics [0856253] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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The intensity of TeV atmospheric muons and neutrinos depends on the temperature in the stratosphere. We show that the energy dependence in the 100 TeV range of the correlation with temperature is sensitive to the fraction of muons and neutrinos from decay of charmed hadrons. We discuss the prospects for using the temperature effect as observed in gigaton neutrino detectors to measure the charm contribution.

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