Study of Upward Showering Muons in Super-Kamiokande
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A small subset of neutrino-induced upward going muons in the SuperKamiokande detector consists of high energy muons that undergo radiative energy losses through bremsstrahlung, pair production and photo-nuclear interactions. The mean energy of the parent neutrinos of these showering upward muons is approximately 1 TeV, allowing the selection of a high energy sample of neutrinos. We present the energy spectrum of the parent neutrinos of these upward showering muons and results based on searches for WIMP-induced neutrinos using these upward showering muons are presented.
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