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July 25, 1977Physical Review Letters208 citations

Cosmological Upper Bound on Heavy-Neutrino Lifetimes

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DDDuane A. DicusEKEdward W. KolbVTVigdor L. Teplitz

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An upper bound on the lifetime of a massive, neutral, weakly interacting lepton, ₇, is derived from standard big-bang cosmology. Saturation of the bound and reasonable assumptions about the weak interaction of the ₇ then yield a prediction of approximately 10 MeV for its mass.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1c9a520e2acd31eb2fe90dhttps://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.39.168
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