John Williams
Apr17-07, 10:20 AM
Well, the verdict is in: MiniBOONE fails to
confirm the e-flavor neutrino appearance once
claimed on the basis of the LSND experiment.
There now is NO evidence of appearance of a new
neutrino flavor as a function of anything, including
distance of neutrino propagation.
Hopefully, this will revitalize efforts to come up
with a new and better theory.
The current oscillation theory is based on
a group theory of multiple neutrino mass eigenstates
and implies violation of conservation of energy or
momentum, or both, in a freely propagating particle.
Physicists have been willing to trade off these
conservation laws for too long.
All we know now, from K2K and similar experiments, is
that neutrinos of a certain flavor at the creation point
are detected with less probability at long distances
than at short. This is called a "disappearance"
phenomenon and is well supported by the evidence.
It can't be mass eigenstate oscillation, if we want our
precious energy and momentum laws. These laws work well
in all the rest of physics, including particle interactions.
Why drop them just to fiddle with some group math?
Is flavor a (proper) time dependent property?
Is it distance dependent?
Can an interaction cross-section depend on proper time
or distance?
Does flavor decay? Do neutrinos decay?
Does anyone have a good idea which is consistent with
known physical laws?
confirm the e-flavor neutrino appearance once
claimed on the basis of the LSND experiment.
There now is NO evidence of appearance of a new
neutrino flavor as a function of anything, including
distance of neutrino propagation.
Hopefully, this will revitalize efforts to come up
with a new and better theory.
The current oscillation theory is based on
a group theory of multiple neutrino mass eigenstates
and implies violation of conservation of energy or
momentum, or both, in a freely propagating particle.
Physicists have been willing to trade off these
conservation laws for too long.
All we know now, from K2K and similar experiments, is
that neutrinos of a certain flavor at the creation point
are detected with less probability at long distances
than at short. This is called a "disappearance"
phenomenon and is well supported by the evidence.
It can't be mass eigenstate oscillation, if we want our
precious energy and momentum laws. These laws work well
in all the rest of physics, including particle interactions.
Why drop them just to fiddle with some group math?
Is flavor a (proper) time dependent property?
Is it distance dependent?
Can an interaction cross-section depend on proper time
or distance?
Does flavor decay? Do neutrinos decay?
Does anyone have a good idea which is consistent with
known physical laws?