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Limits on MASSES of Heavy Stable Right-Handed ${{\mathit \nu}}$ (with necessarily suppressed interaction strengths)
Limits on MASSES of Heavy Stable Right-Handed ${{\mathit \nu}}$ (with necessarily suppressed interaction strengths)
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These results apply to heavy Majorana neutrinos and are summarized by the equation: ${\mathit m}_{{{\mathit \nu}}}$ $>$1.2 GeV ($\mathit G_{\mathit F}/\mathit G_{\mathit R}$). The bound saturates, and if $\mathit G_{\mathit R}$ is too small no mass range is allowed.
References:
OLIVE
1982
PR D25 213
Cosmological Bounds on the Masses of Stable, Righthanded Neutrinos