Cosmic neutrinos from unstable relic particles

Aug, 1991
23 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 392 (1993) 111-136
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Report number:
  • UCLA-91-TEP-31

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Abstract:
We derive constraints on the relic abundance of a generic particle of mass 110 14\sim1-10~{14} TeV which decays into neutrinos at cosmological epochs, using data from the Fr\'ejus and IMB nucleon decay detectors and the Fly's Eye air shower array. The lifetime of such unstable particles which may constitute the dark matter today is bounded to be greater than 10 1410 18\sim10~{14}-10~{18} yr, depending on the mass. For lifetimes shorter than the age of the universe, neutrino energy losses due to scattering and the expansion redshift become important and set limits to the ability of neutrino observatories to probe the early universe.
  • dark matter
  • neutrino: cosmic radiation
  • cosmic radiation: flux
  • flux: cosmic radiation
  • neutrino: absorption
  • absorption: neutrino
  • postulated particle
  • baryon: technicolor
  • p: decay
  • decay: p