Probing Unstable Massive Neutrinos with Current Cosmic Microwave Background Observations

Abstract

The pattern of anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background depends upon the masses and lifetimes of the three neutrino species. A neutrino species of mass greater than 10 eV with lifetime between 10^{13} sec and 10^{17} sec leaves a very distinct signature (due to the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect): the anisotropies at large angles are predicted to be comparable to those on degree scales. Present data exclude such a possibility and hence this region of parameter space. For $m_{\nu }\simeq 30$ eV, $\tau \simeq 10^{13}$ sec, we find an interesting possibility: the Integrated Sachs Wolfe peak produced by the decaying neutrino in low-$\Omega$ models mimics the acoustic peak expected in an $\Omega =1$ model.

5 pages, 4 figures

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