Atmospheric lepton fluxes at ultrahigh energies

In order to estimate the possibility to observe exotic physics in a neutrino telescope, it is essential to first understand the flux of atmospheric neutrinos, muons and dimuons. We study the production of these leptons by high-energy cosmic rays. We identify three main sources of muons of energy E > 10^6 GeV: the weak decay of charm and bottom mesons and the electromagnetic decay of unflavored mesons. Contrary to the standard assumption, we find that eta mesons, not the prompt decay of charm hadrons, are the dominant source of atmospheric muons at these energies. We show that, as a consequence, the ratio between the neutrino and muon fluxes is significantly reduced. For dimuons, which may be a background for long-lived staus produced near a neutrino telescope, we find that pairs of E ~ 10^7 GeV forming an angle above 10^-6 rad are produced through D (80%) or B (10%) meson decay and through Drell-Yan proceses (10%). The frequency of all these processes has been evaluated using the jet code PYTHIA.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures; published versio

Observation of eruptive events with the Siberian Radioheliograph

We describe methods for monitoring eruption activity with the first phase of the multiwave Siberian Radioheliograph (SRH-48). We give examples of the recorded eruptive events: 1) rise of a prominence above the limb observed in the radio map sequence of April 24, 2017; 2) a jet recorded on August 2, 2017, whose cold matter screened a compact microwave source for several tens of minutes. The shading due to the jet appearance was observed on SRH-48 correlation curves as the so-called “negative” burst. Using the “negative” burst on the correlation curves of February 9, 2017 as an example, we show that the intervals with depression of the microwave emission of local sources are not always caused by shading of their emission. In this event, the radio brightness decreased within ten hour period of the increased quasi-stationary emission during the development of AR 12635 magnetic structure. Similar behavior was observed in EUV, SXR, and radio emission at 17 GHz

High-energy cosmic ray fluxes in the Earth atmosphere: calculations vs experiments

A new calculation of the atmospheric fluxes of cosmic-ray hadrons and muons in the energy range 10-10^5 GeV has been performed for the set of hadron production models, EPOS 1.6, QGSJET II-03, SIBYLL 2.1, and others that are of interest to cosmic ray physicists. The fluxes of secondary cosmic rays at several levels in the atmosphere are computed using directly data of the ATIC-2, GAMMA experiments, and the model proposed recently by Zatsepin and Sokolskaya as well as the parameterization of the primary cosmic ray spectrum by Gaisser and Honda. The calculated energy spectra of the hadrons and muon flux as a function of zenith angle are compared with measurements as well as other calculations. The effect of uncertainties both in the primary cosmic ray flux and hadronic model predictions on the spectra of atmospheric hadrons and muons is considered.Comment: 30 pages elsart, 18 figures; discussion extended, tables and references added, figures improved, typos corrected; final version accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physic

The HITRAN2020 Molecular Spectroscopic Database

The HITRAN database is a compilation of molecular spectroscopic parameters. It was established in the early 1970s and is used by various computer codes to predict and simulate the transmission and emission of light in gaseous media (with an emphasis on terrestrial and planetary atmospheres). The HITRAN compilation is composed of five major components: the line-by-line spectroscopic parameters required for high-resolution radiative-transfer codes, experimental infrared absorption cross-sections (for molecules where it is not yet feasible for representation in a line-by-line form), collision-induced absorption data, aerosol indices of refraction, and general tables (including partition sums) that apply globally to the data. This paper describes the contents of the 2020 quadrennial edition of HITRAN. The HITRAN2020 edition takes advantage of recent experimental and theoretical data that were meticulously validated, in particular, against laboratory and atmospheric spectra. The new edition replaces the previous HITRAN edition of 2016 (including its updates during the intervening years). All five components of HITRAN have undergone major updates. In particular, the extent of the updates in the HITRAN2020 edition range from updating a few lines of specific molecules to complete replacements of the lists, and also the introduction of additional isotopologues and new (to HITRAN) molecules: SO, CH3F, GeH4, CS2, CH3I and NF3. Many new vibrational bands were added, extending the spectral coverage and completeness of the line lists. Also, the accuracy of the parameters for major atmospheric absorbers has been increased substantially, often featuring sub-percent uncertainties. Broadening parameters associated with the ambient pressure of water vapor were introduced to HITRAN for the first time and are now available for several molecules. The HITRAN2020 edition continues to take advantage of the relational structure and efficient interface available at www.hitran.org and the HITRAN Application Programming Interface (HAPI). The functionality of both tools has been extended for the new edition

Эффективное уравнение Шрёдингера для одномерной системы с быстро осциллирующими граничными условиями

The method of the effective Schrödinger equation applied to one-dimensional problems of particles in a potential box with high-frequency time-dependent boundary conditions is investigated.В работе исследован метод эффективного уравнения Шрёдингера, примененный к одномерной задаче о движущейся частице в коробке с зависящими от времени граничными условиями

Эффективное уравнение Шрёдингера для одномерной системы с быстро осциллирующими граничными условиями

The method of the effective Schrödinger equation applied to one-dimensional problems of particles in a potential box with high-frequency time-dependent boundary conditions is investigated.В работе исследован метод эффективного уравнения Шрёдингера, примененный к одномерной задаче о движущейся частице в коробке с зависящими от времени граничными условиями

Siberian Radioheliograph: first results

Regular observations of active processes in the solar atmosphere have been started using the first stage of the multiwave Siberian Radioheliograph (SRH), a T-shaped 48-antenna array with a 4–8 GHz operating frequency range and a 10 MHz instantaneous receiving band. Antennas are mounted on the central antenna posts of the Siberian Solar Radio Telescope. The maximum baseline is 107.4 m, and the angular resolution is up to 70. We present examples of observations of the solar disk at different frequencies, “negative” bursts, and solar flares. The sensitivity to compact sources reaches 0.01 solar flux units (≈10−4 of the total solar flux) with an accumulation time of about 0.3 s. The high sensitivity of SRH enables monitoring of solar activity and allows studying active processes from characteristics of their microwave emission, including faint events, which could not be detected previously