Measurement of the atmospheric $ν_μ$ energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 200 TeV with the ANTARES telescope
Creators: name: The ANTARES Collaboration
name: Adrián-Martínez, S.
name: Albert, A.
name: Samarai, I. Al
name: André, M.
name: Anghinolfi, M.
name: Anton, G.
name: Anvar, S.
name: Ardid, M.
name: Astraatmadja, T.
name: Aubert, J-J.
name: Baret, B.
name: Barrios-Martí, J.
name: Basa, S.
name: Bertin, V.
name: Biagi, S.
name: Bigongiari, C.
name: Bogazzi, C.
name: Bouhou, B.
name: Bouwhuis, M. C.
name: Bruijn, R.
name: Brunner, J.
name: Busto, J.
name: Capone, A.
name: Caramete, L.
name: Carloganu, C.
name: Carr, J.
name: Cecchini, S.
name: Charif, Z.
name: Charvis, Ph.
name: Chiarusi, T.
name: Circella, M.
name: Classen, F.
name: Core, L.
name: Costantini, H.
name: Coyle, P.
name: Creusot, A.
name: Curtil, C.
name: Dekeyser, I.
name: Deschamps, A.
name: De Bonis, G.
name: Decowski, M. P.
name: Distefano, C.
name: Donzaud, C.
name: Dornic, D.
name: Dorosti, Q.
name: Drouhin, D.
name: Dumas, A.
name: Eberl, T.
name: Emanuele, U.
name: Enzenhöfer, A.
name: Ernenwein, J-P.
name: Escoffier, S.
name: Fehn, K.
name: Fermani, P.
name: Flaminio, V.
name: Folger, F.
name: Fritsch, U.
name: Fusco, L. A.
name: Galatà, S.
name: Gay, P.
name: Geisselsöder, S.
name: Geyer, K.
name: Giacomelli, G.
name: Giordano, V.
name: Gleixner, A.
name: Gómez-González, J. P.
name: Graf, K.
name: Guillard, G.
name: van Haren, H.
name: Heijboer, A. J.
name: Hello, Y.
name: Hernández-Rey, J. J.
name: Herold, B.
name: Hössl, J.
name: James, C. W.
name: de Jong, M.
name: Kadler, M.
name: Kalekin, O.
name: Kappes, A.
name: Katz, U.
name: Kooijman, P.
name: Kouchner, A.
name: Kreykenbohm, I.
name: Kulikovskiy, V.
name: Lahmann, R.
name: Lambard, E.
name: Lambard, G.
name: Larosa, G.
name: Lattuada, D.
name: Lefèvre, D.
name: Leonora, E.
name: Presti, D. Lo
name: Loehner, H.
name: Loucatos, S.
name: Louis, F.
name: Mangano, S.
name: Marcelin, M.
name: Margiotta, A.
name: Martínez-Mora, J. A.
name: Martini, S.
name: Michael, T.
name: Montaruli, T.
name: Morganti, M.
name: Motz, H.
name: Mueller, C.
name: Neff, M.
name: Nezri, E.
name: Palioselitis, D.
name: Pavalas, G. E.
name: Perrina, C.
name: Piattelli, P.
name: Popa, V.
name: Pradier, T.
name: Racca, C.
name: Richter, R.
name: Rivière, C.
name: Robert, A.
name: Roensch, K.
name: Rostovtsev, A.
name: Samtleben, D. F. E.
name: Sanguineti, M.
name: Sapienza, P.
name: Schmid, J.
name: Schnabel, J.
name: Schulte, S.
name: Schüssler, F.
name: Seitz, T.
name: Shanidze, R.
name: Sieger, C.
name: Simeone, F.
name: Spies, A.
name: Spurio, M.
name: Steijger, J. J. M.
name: Stolarczyk, Th.
name: Sánchez-Losa, A.
name: Taiuti, M.
name: Tamburini, C.
name: Tayalati, Y.
name: Trovato, A.
name: Vallage, B.
name: Vallée, C.
name: Van Elewyck, V.
name: Vernin, P.
name: Visser, E.
name: Wagner, S.
name: Wilms, J.
name: de Wolf, E.
name: Yatkin, K.
name: Yepes, H.
name: Zornoza, J. D.
name: Zúñiga, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atmospheric neutrinos are produced during cascades initiated by the interaction of primary cosmic rays with air nuclei. In this paper, a measurement of the atmospheric ν_μ+ \barν_μenergy spectrum in the energy range 0.1 - 200 TeV is presented, using data collected by the ANTARES underwater neutrino telescope from 2008 to 2011. Overall, the measured flux is ~25% higher than predicted by the conventional neutrino flux, and compatible with the measurements reported in ice. The flux is compatible with a single power-law dependence with spectral index γ_{meas}=3.58\pm 0.12. With the present statistics the contribution of prompt neutrinos cannot be established.
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