2001/06/05 by A. Misaki, T. S. Sinegovskaya, Misaki, A. +5
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0106051
4 pages, 4 figures, uses icrc.cls, talk to be presented at the 27th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Hamburg, Germany, August 7-15, 2001
arxiv created 2001/06/05 · openalex publication_date 2001/06/05 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We compute deep-sea energy spectra and zenith-angle distributions of the atmospheric muons, both conventional and prompt. The prompt muon contribution to the muon flux underwater is calculated taking into consideration predictions of recent charm production models in which probed is the small-x behavior of the gluon distribution inside of a nucleon. We argue for a possibility to discriminate the PQCD models of the charm production differing in the slope of the gluon distribution, in measurements with neutrino telescopes of the muon flux at energies 10-100 TeV.