Published October 2003
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Journal article
Hopeless to kinematically detect the effective masses of muon and tau neutrinos
Creators
- 1. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China). Inst. of High Energy Physics
Description
The authors show that the recent WMAP data can impose a generous upper bound on the effective masses of electron, muon and tau neutrinos defined in the kinematic measurements: e2 + μ2 + τ2=M12 + M22 + m32 <0.5 eV2, or α <0.71 eV (for α=e, μ, τ). When current neutrino oscillation data are taken into account, the authors obtain e<0.24 eV and μ≅τ<0.24 eV. Thus there is no hope to kinematically detect μ and τ in any realistic experiments
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics
- Journal Volume
- 27
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Journal Page Range
- p. 841-845
- ISSN
- 0254-3052
INIS
- Country of Publication
- China
- Country of Input or Organization
- China
- INIS RN
- 35089682
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- EFFECTIVE MASS; ELECTRON NEUTRINOS; LIMITING VALUES; MUON NEUTRINOS; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; PARTICLE KINEMATICS; TAU NEUTRINOS
- Descriptors DEC
- ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HEAVY LEPTONS; LEPTONS; MASS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NEUTRINOS