Published November 2001 | Version v1
Journal article

Unified understanding of neutrino oscillation and negative mass-square of neutrino

Creators

  • 1. Academia Sinica, Shanghai (China). Shanghai Inst. of Nuclear Research

Description

The author indicates that even a conclusive confirmation of neutrino oscillation does not necessarily imply the existence of massive neutrinos. The negative value of neutrino mass-square may be an alternative key with realistic physical meaning. Reexamining special relativity (SR), the authors find that there actually exists a formal phase velocity of 'de Broglie's wave' in temporal Lorentz transformation attributed to the intrinsical essence of Minkowski's space. The properties of spacelike interval between two events have already included constrains to describe superluminal motion and SR is compatible with the faster-than-light motion originally in algebraic domain. Pay attention to that the operator representation, p-vector<->-iℎ∇-vector, has just verified for sub-luminal particles, not for superluminal particles, adhering to de Broglie's coexistence idea between waves and particles, it is possible to deduce a formal two-component Weyl equation to describe any species of free neutrinos with imaginary rest mass, which is equivalent to making use of the Dirac equation for a free spin-1/2 particle with zero rest mass in form

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Science and Techniques
Journal Volume
12
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 276-283
ISSN
1001-8042