COSMIC NEUTRINOS FROM UNSTABLE RELIC PARTICLES

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GONDOLO, P
GELMINI, G
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[1] UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES,DEPT PHYS,LOS ANGELES,CA 90024
[2] UNIV OXFORD,DEPT THEORET PHYS,OXFORD OX1 3NP,ENGLAND
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10.1016/0550-3213(93)90199-Y
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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We derive constraints on the relic abundance of a generic particle of mass approximately 1-10(14) TeV which decays into neutrinos at cosmological epochs, using data from the Frejus 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 approximately 10(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.
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