Have Massive Cosmological Neutrinos Already Been Detected?
- 27 October 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 45 (17) , 1460-1462
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.45.1460
Abstract
The possibility is investigated that the decay of massive cosmological neutrinos may have produced a spectral signature which has already been detected in observations of the ultraviolet background radiation. Various implications are discussed including a possible implied neutrino mass of 13.8-14.8 eV. A lower limit is also placed on the lifetime of heavy neutrinos with respect to the decay based on the cosmic uv observations.
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