Re: neutrino LET

[G <g9326389@mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA>]

> This note may be of interest to this list; not the sort of LET most 
> readers have to deal with.   
> Jay Benesch
> benesch@cebaf.gov
  ...
>> PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE                         
>> The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News
>> Number 253  January 11, 1996 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben
>> Stein
>> 
>> DID NEUTRINOS KILL THE DINOSAURS?  Massive collapsing ...
  ...
>> Although stellar collapse parameters are  poorly known, Collar has
>> ventured to calculate the effect of a hypothetical  low-dose, high-
>> linear-energy-transfer (the energy dissipated by a radiation per unit
>> length through a biological sample) neutrino flux on terrestrial
>> animals; he suggests that collapse neutrinos may well cause a
>> catastrophic level of cancerous malignancy, with ensuing large-
>> scale loss of life, at a frequency (on the order of 100 million years)
>> consistent with known major extinctions on Earth.  (Juan I. Collar,
>> Physical Review Letters, 15 January 1995 (typo: 1996); science journalist
>> can obtain the article from AIP Public Information, physnews@aip.org.

  The article appeared neither in January 15 (V76,No.3) nor January 22
  (76/4) issue of PRL. 
 
  The latest from the PRL's editorial office:
    Yes, Collar's article has been approved.
    No,  It hasn't been scheduled (for printing) yet.
    Yes, the article is still in the PRL's own computer with January 
    15, 1996 as a date of publishing.

  Interesting.

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