Comment on Neutrino Radiative Decay Limits from the Infrared Background

Abstract

Recent observations of TeV gamma rays from distant sources provide new limits on the cosmic infrared background and thus on radiative decays of background neutrinos. I translate these limits into bounds on transition dipole moments and compare them with limits from the energy-loss of globular-cluster stars. The latter are more restrictive for neutrino masses below 1-2 eV.

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• New Limits to the IR Background: Bounds on Radiative Neutrino Decay and on VMO Contributions to the Dark Matter Problem

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