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The first AMS flight in June 1998 on board the space shuttle Discovery at an altitude of approximately 380 km unveiled unexpected features of the cosmic rays spectra below Earth's geomagnetic cutoff. In addition to a secondary flux of particles at all latitudes, a ring of high energy particles (up to 6 GeV) and an anomalous ratio e^+/e^- as high as 4 was observed near the geomagnetic equator. This paper describes a simulation of the interaction of primary cosmic rays with the atmosphere in which the effect of Earth's magnetic field is included. Using the GEANT3 package for the tracking of particles with the GFLUKA associated package for the physics of interactions, this simulation reproduces quite well the AMS experimental results and the CAPRICE muon data at ground level. The predictions of this model for the flux of atmospheric neutrinos are compared with the Super-Kamiokande results and with the results of other atmospheric neutrino models.
Favier et al. (2003) studied this question.