Abstract
Existing limits on the nonradiative decay of one neutrino to another plus a massless particle (e.g., a singlet Majoron) are very weak. The best limits on the lifetime to mass ratio come from solar neutrino observations and are for the relevant mass eigenstate(s). For lifetimes even several orders of magnitude longer, high-energy neutrinos from distant astrophysical sources would decay. This would strongly alter the flavor ratios from the expected from oscillations alone and should be readily visible in the near future in detectors such as IceCube.
- Received 19 November 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.181301
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