RT Journal Article
T1 Secondary lepton production, propagation, and interactions
A1 Cummings, Austin
A1 Krebs, Ryan
A1 Wissel, Stephanie
A1 Álvarez Muñiz, Jaime
A1 Carvalho, Washington Rodrigues De
A1 Romero-Wolf, Andrés
A1 Schoorlemmer, Harm
A1 Zas Arregui, Enrique
K1 Cosmic rays & astroparticles
K1 Extrasolar neutrino astronomy
K1 Neutrino interactions
AB Charged current interactions of neutrinos inside the Earth can result in secondary muons and τ-leptons which are detectable by several existing and planned neutrino experiments through a wide variety of event topologies. Consideration of such events can improve detector performance and provide unique signatures which help with event reconstruction. In this work, we describe NuLeptonSim, a propagation tool for neutrinos and charged leptons that builds on the fast NuTauSim framework. NuLeptonSim considers energy losses of charged leptons, modeled both continuously for performance or stochastically for accuracy, as well as interaction models for all flavors of neutrinos, including the Glashow resonance. We demonstrate the results from including these effects on the Earth emergence probability of various charged leptons from different flavors of primary neutrino and their corresponding energy distributions. We find that the emergence probability of muons can be higher than that of taus for energies below 100 PeV, whether from a primary muon or τ neutrino, and that the Glashow resonance contributes to a surplus of emerging leptons near the resonant energy.
PB American Physical Society
SN 2470-0010
YR 2025
FD 2025-01-08
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/42852
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/42852
LA eng
NO Cummings, A., Krebs, R., Wissel, S., Alvarez-Muñiz, J., Carvalho, W. R., Romero-Wolf, A., Schoorlemmer, H., Zas, E. (2025). Secondary lepton production, propagation, and interactions. Physical Review D, 111(2). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.023012
NO Funded by SCOAP3.
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026