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    Albert, A.; Alfaro, R.; Alvarez, C.; Angeles Camacho, J.R.; Arteaga-Velázquez, J.C.; Arunbabu, K.P.; Belmont-Moreno, E.; Caballero-Mora, K.S.; Capistrán, T.; Carramiñana, A.; Casanova, S.; Cotti, U.; Cotzomi, J.; Coutiño de León, S.; De la Fuente, E.; Diaz Hernandez, R.; DuVernois, M.A.; Durocher, M.; Espinoza, C.; Fan, K.L.; Fraija, N.; Garcia, D.; García-González, J.A.; Garfias, F.; González, M.M.; Goodman, J.A.; Huang, D.; Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F.; Hüntemeyer, P.; Iriarte, A.; Jardin-Blicq, A.; Kieda, D.; Lara, A.; Lee, W.H.; León Vargas, H.; Longinotti, A.L.; Luis-Raya, G.; Malone, K.; Martínez-Castro, J.; Matthews, J.A.; Miranda-Romagnoli, P.; Morales-Soto, J.A.; Moreno, E.; Nayerhoda, A.; Nellen, L.; Noriega-Papaqui, R.; Omodei, N.; Peisker, A.; Pérez-Pérez, E.G.; Rho, C.D.; Rosa-González, D.; Sandoval, A.; Serna-Franco, J.; Springer, R.W.; Tollefson, K.; Torres, I.; Torres-Escobedo, R.; Ureña-Mena, F.; Villaseñor, L.; Zhou, H.; de León, C.

    Astroparticle physics, April 2022, 2022-04-00, Letnik: 137
    Journal Article

    The close location of the HAWC observatory to the largest volcano in Mexico allows to perform a search for neutrino-induced horizontal muon and tau charged leptons. The section of the volcano located at the horizon reaches values of slant depth larger than 8 km of rock, making it an excellent shield for the cosmic ray horizontal background. We report the search method and background suppression technique developed for the detection of Earth-skimming neutrinos with HAWC, as well as a model that describes the remaining background produced by scattered muons. We show that by increasing the detection energy threshold we could use HAWC to search for neutrino-induced charged leptons.