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Charged lepton production from iron induced by atmospheric neutrinos

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The charged current lepton production induced by neutrinos in 56Fe nuclei has been studied. The calculations have been done for the quasielastic as well as the inelastic reactions assuming Δ-dominance and take into account the effect of Pauli blocking, Fermi motion and the renormalization of weak transition strengths in the nuclear medium. The quasielastic production cross-sections for lepton production are found to be strongly reduced due to nuclear effects, while there is about 10% reduction in the inelastic cross-sections in the absence of the final-state interactions of the pions. The numerical results for the momentum and angular distributions of the leptons averaged over the various atmospheric-neutrino spectra at the Soudan and Gran Sasso sites have been presented. The effect of nuclear-model dependence and the atmospheric-flux dependence on the relative yield of μ to e has been studied and discussed.

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Sajjad Athar, M., Ahmad, S. & Singh, S.K. Charged lepton production from iron induced by atmospheric neutrinos. Eur. Phys. J. A 24, 459–474 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2004-10234-2

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