Cosmological bounds on the masses of stable, right-handed neutrinos

Keith A. Olive, Michael S. Turner

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Abstract

Previous authors have used the present mass density of the universe to constrain the masses of stable, left-handed neutrinos. We generalize these arguments to constrain the masses of stable, right-handed neutrinos which interact with strength GGF. Light neutrinos (1 MeV) are constrained to be less massive than 100 eV-2 keV, depending upon G and whether they are of the Dirac or Majorana type. Heavy neutrinos must be more massive than (GFG) GeV, and less massive than about 10 TeV.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)213-216
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume25
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1982

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