D. The Absorption Cross Section
Nucleons are so rare throughout the Universe at large (nB = (2.5 ± 0.1) × 10−7 cm−3 in the current Universe [3]) that neutrino–nucleon scattering is a negligible source of attenuation, even over cosmological distances. A path length of 8 × 105 Mpc in today’s Universe corresponds to 1 cm water equivalent (cmwe).
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[a]. https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0412122 .
Diagnostic Potential of Cosmic-Neutrino Absorption Spectroscopy
Gabriela Barenboim,Olga Mena Requejo,Chris Quigg
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592, 1 (2004).
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