Secondary Neutrinos from Tau Neutrino Interactions in Earth
Abstract
The energy dependence of "secondary" neutrinos from the process nutau->tau->numubar->mubar for two input tau neutrino fluxes (F0nu ~ 1/Enu and 1/Enu2), assumed to have been produced via neutrino oscillations from extragalactic sources, is evaluated to assess the impact of secondary neutrinos on the upward muon rates in a km3 detector. We show that the secondard fluxes are considerably suppressed for the steeper flux, and even for fluxes ~ 1/Enu, the secondary flux will be difficult to observe experimentally.
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