Reevaluation of an experiment claiming a nonzero neutrino mass

1 September 1984

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D

Vol. 30 (5) , 1110-1111
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.30.1110

Abstract

It is pointed out that, due to the neglect of the natural line width of internal-conversion lines used for determining the instrumental resolution, the experiment of Lubimov et al does not determine a model-independent lower bound for the neutrino mass.

Keywords

CLAIMING
NONZERO
NEUTRINO
CONVERSION
NEGLECT
RESOLUTION
LUBIMOV
WIDTH
REEVALUATION

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