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S. I. Sinegovsky

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Expected Muon Energy Spectra and Zenithal Distributions Deep Underwater

Energy spectra and zenith angle distributions of atmospheric muons are calculated for the depths of operation of large underwater neutrino telescopes. The estimation of the prompt muon contribution is performed with three approaches to charm hadroproduction: recombination quark-parton model, quark-gluon string model, and perturbative QCD based models. Calculations show that the larger are zenith angles and water thickness above the detector, the lower is the energy at which the prompt muon flux becomes equal to conventional one (``crossing energy'') . For instance, for the depth of the Baikal Neutrino Telescope and for zenith angle of 78 degrees the crossing energy is about 300 TeV, whereas it is only 8 TeV for the NESTOR depth. Nevertheless, the muon flux of the crossing energy at NESTOR depth is in order of magnitude lower in comparison with the Baikal depth.

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Kaon Decay Form Factors and Atmospheric Neutrino Flavor Ratio at High Energies

The dependence of the semileptonic kaon decay form factors on the 4-momentum transfer to the lepton pair causes certain changes in the differential decay rates and, hence, it should affect the conventional atmospheric neutrino flux and neutrino flavour ratio. As a case in point, we included these rates into the calculation of the atmospheric neutrino flux at energies 1 to 100 TeV. The calculated neutrino spectra are between the earlier predictions while the neutrino flavor ratio, R, is somewhat affected by the kaon form factors. The R proves to be very sensitive to the contribution of neutrinos from decay of charmed particles, providing an additional method to test the charm production models in future experiments with large-volume neutrino telescopes.

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High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Muons Under Thick Layers of Matter I. a Method to Solve the Transport Equation

An effective analytical method for calculating energy spectra of cosmic-ray muons at large depths of homogeneous media is developed. The method allows to include an arbitrary (decreasing) muon spectrum at the medium boundary and the energy dependence of both discrete (radiative and photonuclear) and continuous (ionization) muon energy losses, with resonable requirements for the high-energy behavior of the initial spectrum and differential cross sections of the muon-matter interactions. (To be published in the Proceedings of the Second NESTOR International Workshop, 19 -- 21 October 1992, Pylos, Greece.)

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