Measurements using the inelasticity distribution of multi-TeV neutrino interactions in IceCube

Inelasticity, the fraction of a neutrino's energy transferred to hadrons, is a quantity of interest in the study of astrophysical and atmospheric neutrino interactions at multi-TeV energies with Ic ...

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