HAVE MASSIVE COSMOLOGICAL NEUTRINOS ALREADY BEEN DETECTED?

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 νH with respect to the decay νH→νL+γ based on the cosmic uv observations.

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