On the possibility of detecting the annihilation of very heavy neutrinos in the galactic halo by 1 km(3) neutrino detector

被引:8
作者
Fargion, D
Khlopov, MY
Konoplich, RV
Konoplich, VR
Mignani, R
机构
[1] UNIV ROMA 3,DIPARTIMENTO FIS E AMALDI,I-00146 ROME,ITALY
[2] IST NAZL FIS NUCL,SEZ ROMA,I-00185 ROME,ITALY
[3] CTR COSMOPARTICLE PHYS COSMION,MOSCOW 125047,RUSSIA
[4] INST APPL MATH,MOSCOW 125047,RUSSIA
[5] MOSCOW PHYS ENGN INST,MOSCOW 115409,RUSSIA
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10.1142/S0217732396001375
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We consider the possibility of detecting in a hypothetical 1 km(3) neutrino telescope high energy neutrinos resulting from the annihilation of very heavy neutrinos of fourth generation in the galactic halo. It is shown that such a large telescope could in principle detect this negligible component which, if it does exist, gives a contribution of order 10(-2) to the dark matter of the universe.
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页码:1363 / 1369
页数:7
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