Neutrino-Induced Muons Deep Underground
- 2 July 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 31 (1), 66-70
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.31.66
Abstract
We report here the results of a measurement of the integral energy distribution of the neutrino-induced muon flux deep underground using the Utah neutrino detector. Five neutrino-induced muon candidates have been obtained from the approximately muons which have passed through the detector during 603 days of live operation out of 830 days total elapsed time. By comparing the observed and expected energy distributions we are able to set lower limits on the saturation energy of the total neutrino-nucleon cross section or, equivalently, on the mass of the intermediate vector boson if scale invariance of the inelastic structure function is assumed. We find at the , , and levels of confidence GeV or GeV, respectively.
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