Testing neutrino instability with active galactic nuclei

Details Testing neutrino instability with active galactic nuclei Testing neutrino instability with active galactic nuclei

1999-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9901403v1

Phys.Lett.B461:230-234,1999

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

3 pages

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00862-X

Active galactic nuclei and gamma ray bursts at cosmological distances are sources of high-energy electron and muon neutrinos and provide a unique test bench for neutrino instability. The typical lifetime-to-mass ratio one can reach there is $\tau/m\sim 500 Mpc/cE_{\nu}\sim 500$ s/eV. We study the rapid decay channel $\nu_i\to\nu_j+\phi$, where $\phi$ is a massless or very light scalar (possibly a Goldstone boson), and point out that one can test the coupling strength of $g_{ij}\nu_i\nu_j$ down to $g_{ij}\lsim 10^{-8} eV/m$ by measuring the relative fluxes of $\nu_{e}$, $\nu_{\mu}$ and $\nu_{\tau}$. This is orders of magnitude more stringent bound than what one can obtain in other phenomena, e.g. in neutrinoless double beta decay with scalar emission.

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