Has a Cosmological Neutrino Background from Gravitational Stellar Collapse Been Detected?
- 23 September 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 55 (13) , 1422-1425
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.55.1422
Abstract
The rate of neutrino-induced events with observed energy below 100 MeV in the Kamiokande proton-decay detector is much higher than expected from atmospheric neutrinos. However, it is shown here that this rate is consistent with a cosmological background of relic neutrinos that was formed by gravitational stellar collapses that have been taking place since galaxy and star formation.Keywords
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