Search for Possible Solar Neutrino Radiative Decays during Total Solar Eclipses
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Total solar eclipses (TSEs) offer a good opportunity to look for photons produced in possible radiative decays of solar neutrinos. In this paper we briefly review the physics bases of such searches as well as the existing limits for the ν2 and ν3 proper lifetimes obtained by such experiments. We then report on the observations performed in occasion of the 29 March 2006 TSE, from Waw an Namos, Libya.
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