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During the 1999 total solar eclipse we intended to search for photons emitted by a possible radiative decay of the heavier component of solar neutrinos, using two telescopes: an airborne one, and another at mountain altitude, in Romania(the NOTTE experiment). The weather conditions did not allow us to perform the measurements. Alternatively, we analyzed a video tape of the eclipse offered to us by a local television, obtaining some qualitative estimations on the neutrino lifetimes. We present also a first report on the observations made 21 June 2001, from Zambia.
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Popa, V. Limits on radiative decays of solar neutrinos from measurements during a total solar eclipse. Astrophysics and Space Science 282, 235–244 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021166907147
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