(September 27, 2011 at 8:42 am)lanceromega Wrote: Or it can be that Neutrinos are in fact tachyons, back in the 90's several attempts to measure the mass of neutrinos yielded results that point toward the fact that they may have possess imaginary mass, which is the same mass Tachyon possess.
Which experiments are you referring to?
"What is the mass of a neutrino?" is not even a well-defined question, since the flavour eigenstates are not mass eigenstates.
Quote:Any normal particle possessing a real mass would have varying velocities depending on momentum and kinetic energy, no experiment to date has have clocked a slow Neutrino.
If the squared mass splittings from the KamLAND and MINOS experiments are taken as indicative of the absolute scale of the neutrino mass eigenstate masses, given that we know of no processes that produce sub-keV neutrinos and that the cross-section varies inversely with energy, it's hardly a surprise that we don't see "slow" neutrinos.
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