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Atmospheric Neutrino Spectra: A Statistical Analysis of Calculations in Comparison with Experiment

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A statistical analysis is performed to compare calculated spectra of atmospheric neutrinos and measuring data obtained in the Frejus, AMANDA-II, IceCube, ANTARES, and Super-Kamiokande experiments. Atmospheric neutrino spectra are calculated with a certain computational scheme for set of models of hadron–nuclear interaction also used in the EAS simulation. Standard criterion χ2 is used to compare the calculated energy spectra and the experimental values. The analysis allows one to estimate the statistical significance level of various models according to their agreement with measurements of different experiments.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors thank D.V. Naumov for his helpful comments and consultations.

Funding

The work was financially supported by the RF Ministry of Science and Higher Education, agreement no. ~075-15-2020-778, project no. FZZE-2020-0017, and the Institute of Solar and Terrestrial Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, project no. II.16.

The work of A.D. Morozova is supported by Irkutsk State University, grant no. 091-20-306 for young scientists and specialists.

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  1. Institute of Solar and Terrestrial Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 664033, Irkutsk, Russia

    A. A. Kochanov

  2. Irkutsk State University, 664003, Irkutsk, Russia

    A. A. Kochanov, A. D. Morozova & S. I. Sinegovsky

  3. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Moscow oblast, Russia

    K. S. Kuzmin, A. D. Morozova & S. I. Sinegovsky

  4. Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, 117218, Moscow, Russia

    K. S. Kuzmin

  5. Irkutsk State Transport University, 664074, Irkutsk, Russia

    T. S. Sinegovskaya

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Kochanov, A.A., Kuzmin, K.S., Morozova, A.D. et al. Atmospheric Neutrino Spectra: A Statistical Analysis of Calculations in Comparison with Experiment. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 85, 433–437 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873821040195

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