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Muons are the most abundant charged particles arriving at sea level and the only ones able to penetrate deep underground.
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In the following, when not explicitly stated, we use the symbol \(\nu _\mu \) or \(\nu _e\) to indicate both neutrinos and antineutrinos of the given flavor.
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In 2011 there was a huge emphasis on a high-statistical significance claim made by the OPERA collaboration that neutrinos travel with a speed exceeding that of light. Waiting for the confirmation from the MINOS experiment, few months later the collaboration discovered a problem in a hardware connection which invalidated the claim (Adam et al. 2014).
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Spurio, M. (2015). Atmospheric Muons and Neutrinos. In: Particles and Astrophysics. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08051-2_11
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