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Cosmic rays interact in the Earth's atmosphere to produce extensive air-showers (EASs). The EASs have Cherenkov and fluorescence emission associated to them that can be detected by ground-based, sub-orbital and satellite-based neutrino telescopes.
Ground-based and sub-orbital telescopes are also subject to the atmospheric flux of muons which arrive at the detectors as a potential background. Using a semi-analytic technique with cascade equations for atmospheric particle fluxes, we quantify the atmospheric muon flux that reaches ground-based and sub-orbital telescopes like Trinity and the Extreme Universe Space Observatory Super Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2), respectively. We evaluate the conventional muon flux produced from pion and kaon decays for muon energies higher than a few GeV for which the effects of Earth's magnetic field can be ignored.
