Implications for the Cosmic Ray Spectrum of a Negative Electron Neutrino Mass²

1998/12/31 by R. Ehrlich
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph

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published as Phys.Rev. D60 (1999) 17302 · Published in Phys. Rev. D 60, 17302 (1999), 4 pages and 3 figures

arxiv created 1999/09/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

The features and problems of a speculative model based on the electron neutrino being a tachyon are discussed. The model is consistent with five properties of the cosmic ray spectrum, and it predicts a flux of neutrons in a narrow energy region centered on 4.5 +/- 2.2 x 10¹⁵ eV.

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