The Prompt Lepton Cookbook
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We review the calculation of the prompt lepton flux produced in the atmosphere by the semileptonic decay of charmed particles, describing side by side the many intermediary ingredients, used by different authors, not only for the charm production model but also for the atmospheric particle showering process. We provide guidelines to further works on high-energy neutrino phe-nomenology, in the form of closely related parametrizations of these ingredients, and we compare their relative importance to the final results. We highlight the impact of the prompt lepton calculation upon cosmic neutrino telescopes.
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/ 00 10 30 6 v 3 1 9 Ja n 20 01 The Prompt Lepton Cookbook
We review the calculation of the prompt lepton flux, produced in the atmosphere by the semileptonic decay of charmed particles. We describe side by side the intermediary ingredients used by different authors, which include not only the charm production model, but also other atmospheric particle showering parameters. After evaluating separately the relevance of each single ingredient, we analyze...
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