isotropic flux

isotropic flux

[¦ī·sə¦trä·pik ′fləks]
(physics)
Radiation, or a flow of particles or matter, which reaches a location from all directions with equal intensity.
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Since we are interested in integrating the flux on only a certain region (the one covered by the Pico de Orizaba volcano) and because we are considering an isotropic flux, we can simplify the differential neutrino flux to
With the results from Sections 2 and 3 we have the flux of charged leptons given a certain isotropic flux of neutrinos and the effective area of the HAWC observatory obtained with a simple trigger condition.
Capability of the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory for the Indirect Detection of Ultrahigh-Energy Neutrinos
As a consequence an isotropic flux [[phi].sub.0] of molecules hitting a smooth surface, after scattering becomes non-isotropic.
The missing measurements of the gravitational constant
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