# High-energy neutrino attenuation in the Earth and its associated uncertainties

@article{Vincent2017HighenergyNA,
title={High-energy neutrino attenuation in the Earth and its associated uncertainties},
author={Aaron C. Vincent and Carlos A. Arguelles and Ali Kheirandish},
journal={arXiv: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology},
year={2017}
}
• Published 29 June 2017
• Physics
• arXiv: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We describe nuFATE Neutrino Fast Attenuation Through Earth, a very rapid method of accurately computing the attenuation of high-energy neutrinos during their passage through Earth to detectors such as IceCube, ANTARES or KM3Net, including production of secondary neutrinos from $\tau^\pm$ lepton decay. We then use this method to quantify the error on attenuation due to uncertainties in the isotropic neutrino spectrum, the composition of the Earth, and the parton distribution functions. We show…
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