Neutrino oscillations originate from virtual excitation of Z bosons
arxiv(2024)
摘要
To account for neutrino oscillations, it is postulated that the neutrino has
nonvanishing mass and each flavor eigenstate is formed by three distinct mass
eigenstates, whose probability amplitudes interfere with each other during its
propagation. However, I find that the energy conservation law requires these
mass eigenstates, if they exist, to be entangled with distinct joint energy
eigenstates of the other particles produced by the same weak interaction as the
neutrino. This entanglement destroys the quantum coherence among the neutrino's
mass eigenstates, which are responsible for flavor oscillations under the
aforementioned postulation. I reveal that the neutrino oscillations actually
originate from virtual excitation of the Z bosonic field diffusing over the
space. During the propagation, the neutrino can continually excite and then
immediately re-absorb a virtual Z boson. This virtual bosonic excitation
produces a backaction on the neutrino, enabling it to oscillate among three
flavors. When the neutrino propagates in matter, its behavior is determined by
the competition between the coherent flavor transformation and decoherence
effect resulting from scatterings.
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