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A calculation of the atmospheric high-energy muon neutrino spectra and zenith-angle distributions is performed for two primary spectrum parameterizations (by Gaisser and Honda and by Zatsepin and Sokolskaya) with the use of QGSJET-II-03 and SIBYLL 2.1 hadronic models. A comparison of the zenith angle-averaged muon neutrino spectrum with the data of Frejus, AMANDA-II, and IceCube40 experiments makes it clear that, even at energies above 100 TeV, the prompt neutrino contribution is not apparent because of the considerable uncertainties of the experimental data in the high-energy region.
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Original Russian Text © O.N. Petrova, T.S. Sinegovskaya, S.I. Sinegovsky, 2012, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Fizika Elementarnykh Chastits i Atomnogo Yadra, 2012.
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Petrova, O.N., Sinegovskaya, T.S. & Sinegovsky, S.I. High-energy spectra of atmospheric neutrinos. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 9, 766–768 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477112070138
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