Resonant Absorption of Cosmic Ray Neutrinos by the Relic Neutrino Background

Jan, 1982
15 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 49 (1982) 234
Report number:
  • SLAC-PUB-2869

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Abstract: (APS)
Within the framework of standard big-bang cosmology and the standard electroweak model, it is shown that νν¯ annihilation on the Z resonance is the only cosmic-ray process sensitive to relic neutrinos. For massive (mν≳10−3 eV) neutrinos originating from a z∼3 red-shifted source, a 15% to 50% absorption dip is predicted at Eν∼1011 GeV.
  • NEUTRINO ANTINEUTRINO: ANNIHILATION
  • ANNIHILATION: NEUTRINO ANTINEUTRINO
  • POSTULATED PARTICLE: Z0
  • COSMOLOGICAL MODEL
  • NEUTRINO: MASSIVE
  • MASSIVE: NEUTRINO
  • COSMIC RADIATION
  • NEUTRINO: ENERGY
  • NEUTRINO: DENSITY
  • MASS: Z0