Title
The energy spectrum of atmospheric neutrinos between 2 and 200 TeV with the AMANDA-II detector
Date Issued
01 August 2010
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Abbasi R.
Abdou Y.
Abu-Zayyad T.
Adams J.
Aguilar J.A.
Ahlers M.
Andeen K.
Auffenberg J.
Bai X.
Baker M.
Barwick S.W.
Bay R.
Beattie K.
Beatty J.J.
Bechet S.
Becker J.K.
Becker K.H.
Benabderrahmane M.L.
Berdermann J.
Berghaus P.
Berley D.
Bernardini E.
Bertrand D.
Besson D.Z.
Bissok M.
Blaufuss E.
Boersma D.J.
Bohm C.
Böser S.
Botner O.
Bradley L.
Braun J.
Buitink S.
Carson M.
Chirkin D.
Christy B.
Clem J.
Clevermann F.
Cohen S.
Colnard C.
Cowen D.F.
D'Agostino M.V.
Danninger M.
De Clercq C.
Demirörs L.
Depaepe O.
Descamps F.
Desiati P.
De Vries-Uiterweerd G.
Deyoung T.
Díaz-Vélez J.C.
Dreyer J.
Dumm J.P.
Duvoort M.R.
Ehrlich R.
Eisch J.
Ellsworth R.W.
Engdegrd O.
Euler S.
Evenson P.A.
Fadiran O.
Fazely A.R.
Fedynitch A.
Feusels T.
Filimonov K.
Finley C.
Foerster M.M.
Fox B.D.
Franckowiak A.
Franke R.
Gaisser T.K.
Gallagher J.
Ganugapati R.
Geisler M.
Gerhardt L.
Gladstone L.
Glüsenkamp T.
Goldschmidt A.
Goodman J.A.
Grant D.
Griesel T.
Groß A.
Grullon S.
Gunasingha R.M.
Gurtner M.
Ha C.
Hallgren A.
Halzen F.
Han K.
Hanson K.
Helbing K.
Herquet P.
Hickford S.
Hill G.C.
Hoffman K.D.
Homeier A.
Hoshina K.
Hubert D.
Huelsnitz W.
RWTH Aachen University
Abstract
The muon and anti-muon neutrino energy spectrum is determined from 2000-2003 AMANDA telescope data using regularised unfolding. This is the first measurement of atmospheric neutrinos in the energy range 2-200 TeV. The result is compared to different atmospheric neutrino models and it is compatible with the atmospheric neutrinos from pion and kaon decays. No significant contribution from charm hadron decays or extraterrestrial neutrinos is detected. The capabilities to improve the measurement of the neutrino spectrum with the successor experiment IceCube are discussed.
Start page
48
End page
58
Volume
34
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Astronomía
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-77955175023
Source
Astroparticle Physics
ISSN of the container
09276505
Sponsor(s)
We acknowledge the support from the following agencies: US National Science Foundation-Office of Polar Program, US National Science Foundation-Physics Division, University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, US Department of Energy, and National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) grid computing resources; Swedish Research Council, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC), and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Research Department of Plasmas with Complex Interactions (Bochum), Germany; Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS-FWO), FWO Odysseus programme, Flanders Institute to encourage scientific and technological research in industry (IWT), Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Belspo); Marsden Fund, New Zealand; Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS); the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland; A. Kappes and A. Groß acknowledge support by the EU Marie Curie OIF Program; J. P. Rodrigues acknowledges support by the Capes Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil.
Office of Polar Programs
European Commission
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie
Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
Vetenskapsrådet
Ministério da Educação
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