Muon lifetime dependent effects in MiniBooNE and LSND

TL;DR

This paper explores how muon lifetime effects and quantum entanglement could influence neutrino oscillation results in MiniBooNE and LSND experiments, challenging traditional interpretations and comparisons.

Contribution

It introduces the concept that neutrino entanglement and muon lifetime effects can alter experimental outcomes, providing new insights into neutrino oscillation data interpretation.

Findings

MiniBooNE may not observe CP violation where LSND does.

Neutrino entanglement can cause different oscillation signals in similar experiments.

Comparison of LSND and MiniBooNE results requires accounting for entanglement effects.

Abstract

We argue that because the source-detector distance of 1.8 microseconds (in natural units) for the MiniBooNE is comparable to the muon lifetime of 2.2 microseconds, and because time dilation effects are wiped out in the beam stop, the Goldman entanglement of the neutrinos leads to hitherto unsuspected interpretational consequences. We show that a distinct possibility exists in which a LSND-like experiment sees no CP violation, whereas a MiniBooNE-like setup reproduces the LSND results for the $\bar\nu_\mu$ to $\bar\nu_e$ oscillations while seeing only a significantly suppressed signal for the $\nu_\mu$ to $\nu_e$ oscillations. We also discuss an alternate scenario. This also suggests that the LSND experiment and the MiniBooNE should not be compared without taking into account the Goldman entanglement.