https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7547-0
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Prompt atmospheric neutrinos in the quark–gluon string model
1
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Joliot-Curie, 6, Dubna, Moscow region, 141980, Russia
2
Irkutsk State University, Gagarin blv. 20, Irkutsk, 664003, Russia
* e-mail: sinegovsky@jinr.ru
Received:
28
February
2019
Accepted:
8
December
2019
Published online:
15
January
2020
We calculate the atmospheric flux of prompt neutrinos, produced in decays of the charmed particles at energies beyond 1 TeV. Cross sections of the D mesons and baryons production in pA and
collisions are calculated in the phenomenological quark–gluon string model (QGSM) which is updated using recent measurements of cross sections of the charmed meson production in the LHC experiments. A new estimate of the prompt atmospheric neutrino flux is obtained and compared with the limit from the IceCube experiment, and with predictions of other charm production models.
© The Author(s), 2020