Resonant Scattering of Antineutrinos
Abstract
The hypothesis of an unstable charged boson to mediate muon decay radically affects the cross section for the process ν¯+e-->ν¯+μ- near the energy at which the intermediary may be produced. If the boson is assumed to have K-meson mass, the resonance occurs at an incident antineutrino energy of ~2×1012 ev. The flux of energetic antineutrinos produced in association with cosmic-ray muons will then produce two muon counts per day per square meter of detector, independently of the depth and the orientation at which the experiment is performed.
- Publication:
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Physical Review
- Pub Date:
- April 1960
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRev.118.316
- Bibcode:
- 1960PhRv..118..316G