Highest-energy cosmic rays from fermi-degenerate relic neutrinos consistent with Super-Kamiokande results

被引：67

作者：

Gelmini, G ^{[1
]}

Kusenko, A ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Phys & Astron, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 1999年 / 82卷 / 26期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.5202

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

Relic neutrinos with mass 0.07(-0.04)(+0.02) eV, in the range consitent with Super-Kamiokande data, can explain the cosmic rays with energies in excess of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff. The spectrum of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays produced in this fashion has some distinctive features that may help identify their origin. Our mechanism does not require but is consistent with a neutrino density high enough to be a new kind of hot dark matter.

引用

页码：5202 / 5204

页数：3

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