3 research outputs found
Cosmic Neutrino Last Scattering Surface
Neutrinos decoupled from the rest of the cosmic plasma when the Universe was
less than one second old, far earlier than the photons which decoupled at
t=380,000 years. Surprisingly, though, the last scattering surface of the
neutrinos is much closer to us than that of the photons. Here we calculate the
properties of the last scattering surfaces of the three species of neutrinos.Comment: Important reference to earlier work of Bisnovatyi-Kogan and Seidov
added, and mis-spelling of Opher reference correcte
Charged current cross section for massive cosmological neutrinos impinging on radioactive nuclei
We discuss the cross section formula both for massless and massive neutrinos
on stable and radioactive nuclei. The latter could be of interest for the
detection of cosmological neutrinos whose observation is one of the main
challenges of modern cosmology. We analyze the signal to background ratio as a
function of the ratio of the neutrino mass over the detector resolution and
show that an energy resolution less than 0.5 eV would be required for sub-eV
neutrino masses, independently of the gravitational neutrino clustering.
Finally we mention the non-resonant character of neutrino capture on
radioactive nuclei.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure