Neutrino Decays and Neutrino Telescopes
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It is shown how deviations of neutrino flavor mix from the canonical 1 : 1 : 1 in high energy astrophysical neutrinos can provide evidence for neutrino decays with lifetimes as long as 10s/eV .
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تاریخ انتشار 2003