Journal
ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume 64, Issue -, Pages 13-17Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2014.10.006
Keywords
Atmospheric neutrinos; Neutrino astronomy; Neutral kaons
Funding
- U.S. National Science Foundation [PHY-1307472, PHY-1205809]
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC-76SF00098, DE-FG02-12ER41808]
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1307472] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1205809] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Atmospheric neutrinos are an important background to astrophysical neutrino searches, and are also of considerable interest in their own right. This paper points out that the contribution to conventional atmospheric v(e) of the rare semileptonic decay of K-S becomes significant at high energy. Although the K-S -> pi ev branching ratio is very small, the short K-S lifetime leads to a high critical energy, so that, for vertical showers, the inclusion of K-S semileptonic decay increases the conventional v(e) flux by approximate to 30% at energies above 100 TeV. In this paper, we present calculations of the flux of v(e) from K-S. At energies above their critical energies, the v(e) fluxes from kaon decay may be simply related to the kaon semileptonic widths; this leads to a near-equality between the flux of v(e) from K+,K-L and K-S. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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