Are Neutrino Oscillations a Non-stationary Phenomenon?

TL;DR

This paper examines whether neutrino oscillations are inherently non-stationary phenomena by analyzing experimental data and proposing a new experiment to test this property.

Contribution

It demonstrates that neutrino oscillations are non-stationary and proposes a Moessbauer neutrino experiment to further investigate this characteristic.

Findings

Neutrino oscillations are non-stationary phenomena.

Standard time-energy uncertainty relation is satisfied.

Proposes a Moessbauer neutrino experiment to test non-stationarity.

Abstract

We discuss different schemes of neutrino oscillations and the time-energy uncertainty relation. From the results of the K2K and MINOS accelerator experiments follows that neutrino oscillations are a non-stationary phenomenon and that the standard time-energy uncertainty relation is satisfied. Are these properties a general feature of neutrino oscillations? In this paper we demonstrate that a recently proposed tritium/helium-3 Moessbauer neutrino-experiment could answer this question.