The Solar Neutrino Puzzle
- By Marco Pereira
- Published 04/20/2008
Marco Pereira
My background is scientific with a BSEE(ITA), MSc in Nuclear Physics (ITA), PhD in Physical Chemistry (UPENN), Post-Doc (U of Rochester), MBA (NYU). I was a professor of Molecular Biophysics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NYC. Currently working in Quantitative Finance in Wall Street.
The Solar Neutrino PuzzleBefore I forget, let's take a look at the Solar Neutrino Problem.
Currently Physics take a view that starting from the minute Electron Neutrinos produced in heart of the Sun by thermonuclear reactions one obtain the other much more energetic neutrinos (Muon and Tau neutrinos) because the state of the emitted electron neutrinos are a linear combination of the three neutrinos...:)
That would make a little sense but not much... Linear combinations of quantum states are also called coherences...:) and they occurs for states of similar energy (3D volume or 3D mass) or if an state of higher energy can be decomposed as a sum of lower energy states... This means that it would be appropriate to say that a Tau Neutrino is a coherence composed of a Muon and an Electron Neutrino...:) but the conversely wouldn't make physical sense...:)
Let's see if this make sense within the Hypergeometrical Universe Standard Model.
First let's see those neutrinos again:
Below is the Tau Neutrino Decay:

Notice that the Muon Neutrino is also shown in this decay process and that the Muon Minus decays into an Electron and an Electron Neutrino.
The electron neutrino is shown below in the Neutron decay process:
It becomes clear that the Tau Neutrino is a coherence between an Electron, a Muon Neutrino and an Electron Neutrino.This means that a Tau Neutrino could dephase into an Electron, an Electron Neutrino and a Muon Neutrino.
This also means that any missing Solar Electron Neutrino could be better explained by Electron-MuonNeutrino Capture Process which would create a Tau Neutrino. There are plenty of Electrons around and I suppose some Muon Neutrinos..>:)
This would explain the missing Solar Neutrinos without having to resort to processes where a real (non-Virtual) particle with higher energy (Tau or Muon Neutrino) is created out of a lower energy particle (Electron Neutrino).
I always feel weird when I propose something that breaks down Energy (3D Volume or 3D Mass) Conservation...:)
I think that this is a better explanation.
Cheers,
MP
