Neutrino mass2 inferred from the cosmic ray spectrum and tritium beta decay

2000/09/30 by Robert Ehrlich
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #BETA (programming language) #Beta decay #Beta particle #COSMIC cancer database #Cosmic ray #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Electron neutrino #Energy spectrum #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Neutrino oscillation #Neutron #Nuclear physics #Physics #Tritium #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(00)01157-6

published as Phys.Lett. B493 (2000) 229-232 · Published as Phys. Lett. B 493 (2000) 1-4

openalex publication_date 2000/11/01 · arxiv created 2000/11/03 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

An earlier prediction of a cosmic ray neutron line right at the energy of the knee of the cosmic ray spectrum was based on the speculation that the electron neutrino is a tachyon whose mass is reciprocally related to the energy of the knee, E_k. Given the large uncertainty in E_k, the values of m_ν² corresponding to it are consistent with values recently reported in tritium beta decay experiments.

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