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Published October 1, 1984 | public
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Decay of reactor neutrinos

Vogel, P. ORCID icon

Abstract

We consider the decay of massive neutrinos which couple to electrons and are, therefore, produced in nuclear reactors. Lifetime limits for the γ and electron-positron decay modes of these neutrinos are deduced from the experimental limit on the singles count rate in the detector used to study neutrino oscillations at the Gösgen reactor. The dominantly coupled neutrinos are light, and their invariant-lifetime limit tc.m. / mν is 1-3 sec/eV. The subdominantly coupled heavy neutrinos with mass 1-4 MeV could decay into electron-positron pairs. These pairs were not observed, and from the absence of such a signal we deduce restrictions on the corresponding mixing parameters.

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© 1984 by The American Physical Society. Received 27 April 1984. It is a pleasant duty to thank members of the Caltech-SIN-TUM neutrino-oscillation search team for letting me use their results and for useful comments. The work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AT03-81ER40002.

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