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Astrophysical Limits on Neutrino MASS for ${\mathit m}_{{{\mathit \nu}}}$ $>$ 1 GeV

VALUE (GeV)

CL%

DOCUMENT ID

TECN

COMMENT

• • We do not use the following data for averages, fits, limits, etc. • •

$\text{none 60 - 115}$

ASTR

Dirac

$\text{none 9.2 - 2000}$

COSM

Nucleosynthesis

$\text{none 26 - 4700}$

COSM

Dirac

$\text{none 6 - hundreds}$

KAM2

Dirac neutrino

$\text{none 24 - hundreds}$

KAM2

Majorana neutrino

$\text{none 10 - 2400}$

90

CNTR

HPGe search

$\text{none 3 - 100}$

90

KAM2

Kamiokande II

COSM

$\text{none 12-1400}$

COSM

Dirac ${{\mathit \nu}}$

$\text{none 4-16}$

90

COSM

Dirac ${{\mathit \nu}}$

$\text{none 4-35}$

90

COSM

Majorana ${{\mathit \nu}}$

$\text{>4.2 to 4.7}$

COSM

Dirac ${{\mathit \nu}}$

$\text{>5.3 to 7.4}$

COSM

Majorana ${{\mathit \nu}}$

$\text{none 20-1000}$

95

COSM

Dirac ${{\mathit \nu}}$

$>4.1$

COSM

Dirac ${{\mathit \nu}}$

¹	FARGION 1995 bound is sensitive to assumed ${{\mathit \nu}}$ concentration in the Galaxy. See also KONOPLICH 1994 .

²	These results assume that neutrinos make up dark matter in the galactic halo.

³	Limits based on annihilations in the sun and are due to an absence of high energy neutrinos detected in underground experiments.

⁴	MORI 1992B results assume that neutrinos make up dark matter in the galactic halo. Limits based on annihilations in earth are also given.

⁵	REUSSER 1991 uses existing ${{\mathit \beta}}{{\mathit \beta}}$ detector (see FISHER 1989 ) to search for CDM Dirac neutrinos.

⁶	ENQVIST 1989 argue that there is no cosmological upper bound on heavy neutrinos.

References:

PR D52 1828

Bounds on very Heavy Relic Neutrinos by their Annihilation in Galactic Halo

PR D51 1458

Results of a Dark Matter Search with a Germanium Detector in the Canfranc Tunnel

PL B336 141

Searching for Dark Matter with the Enriched ${}^{}\mathrm {Ge}$ Detectors of the Heidelberg-Moscow Double $\beta $ Decay Experiment

PL B289 463

A Limit on Massive Neutrino Dark Matter from Kamiokande

PL B255 143

Limits on Cold Dark Matter from the Gotthard ${}^{}\mathrm {Ge}$ Experiment

PR D44 2220

Mass Limits for Dark Matter Particles Derived from High Energy Neutrinos from the Sun

NP B317 647

Cosmic Abundances of Very Heavy Neutrinos

PRL 61 510

Laboratory Limits on Galactic Cold Dark Matter

PL B205 553

Solar Neutrino Searches and Cold Dark Matter

NP B310 693

Calculations of Relic Densities in the Early Universe

PL B195 603

Limits on Cold Dark Matter Candidates from an Ultralow Background Germanium Spectrometer

NP B283 681

Cosmic Asymmetry, Neutrinos, and the Sun

NP B296 1034 (erratum)

Erratum to GRIEST 1987 . Cosmic Asymmetry, Neutrinos, and the Sun

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