FLUKA atmospheric neutrino flux
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The atmospheric neutrino flux calculated with FLUKA was originally limited to 100÷200 GeV for statistical reasons. In order to make it available for the analysis of high energy events, like upward through-going muons detected by ν telescopes, we have extended the calculation so to provide a reliable neutrino yield per primary nucleon up to about 10 GeV/nucleon, as far as the interaction model is concerned. We point out that the primary flux model above 100 GeV/nucleon still contributes with an important systematic error to the ν flux.
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