Unified understanding of neutrino oscillation and negative mass-square of neutrino
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
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Science and Techniques
- Journal Volume
- 12
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Journal Page Range
- p. 276-283
- ISSN
- 1001-8042
INIS
- Country of Publication
- China
- Country of Input or Organization
- China
- INIS RN
- 33024872
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DE BROGLIE WAVELENGTH; DIRAC EQUATION; LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS; MINKOWSKI SPACE; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; NEUTRINOS; RELATIVITY THEORY; REST MASS; TACHYONS; TWO-COMPONENT NEUTRINO THEORY; WEYL UNIFIED THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; FERMIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; LEPTONS; MASS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; SPACE; TRANSFORMATIONS; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVELENGTHS