Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays from Fermi-Degenerate Relic Neutrinos Consistent with Super-Kamiokande Results

doi:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.5202

Title: Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays from Fermi-Degenerate Relic Neutrinos Consistent with Super-Kamiokande Results

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Relic neutrinos with mass 0.07{sup +0.02}{sub {minus}0.04} eV , in the range consistent 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. {copyright} {ital 1999} {ital The American Physical Society}

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Gelmini, G; Kusenko, A ^[1]

Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095-1547 (United States)

Publication Date:: 1999-06-01

Research Org.:: University of California

OSTI Identifier:: 349365

DOE Contract Number:: FG03-91ER40662

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Physical Review Letters

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 82; Journal Issue: 26; Other Information: PBD: Jun 1999

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 66 PHYSICS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; MASS; COSMIC NEUTRINOS; COSMIC RAY SOURCES; COSMIC PROTONS

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                    Gelmini, G, and Kusenko, A. Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays from Fermi-Degenerate Relic Neutrinos Consistent with Super-Kamiokande Results.  United States: N. p., 1999. 
        Web.  doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.5202.

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                    Gelmini, G, & Kusenko, A. Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays from Fermi-Degenerate Relic Neutrinos Consistent with Super-Kamiokande Results.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.5202

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                    Gelmini, G, and Kusenko, A. Tue .  
        "Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays from Fermi-Degenerate Relic Neutrinos Consistent with Super-Kamiokande Results".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.5202.

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@article{osti_349365,

  title        = {Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays from Fermi-Degenerate Relic Neutrinos Consistent with Super-Kamiokande Results},

  author       = {Gelmini, G and Kusenko, A},

  abstractNote = {Relic neutrinos with mass 0.07{sup +0.02}{sub {minus}0.04} eV , in the range consistent 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. {copyright} {ital 1999} {ital The American Physical Society}},

  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.5202},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/349365},
  journal      = {Physical Review Letters},
number       = 26,

  volume       = 82,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {1999},

  month        = {6}

}

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