Hypothesis of a new fundamental interaction versus the particle oscillation concept

TL;DR

This paper critically examines the particle oscillation concept, arguing it conflicts with classical logic, conservation laws, and quantum coherence, and proposes a new fundamental interaction involving pseudoscalar bosons to explain neutrino phenomena.

Contribution

It introduces a hypothesis of a new fundamental interaction involving pseudoscalar bosons, challenging the standard particle oscillation model and offering alternative explanations for neutrino behavior.

Findings

Particle oscillation concept conflicts with classical logic and quantum principles.

A new interaction involving pseudoscalar bosons can explain neutrino flux changes.

This interaction accounts for the reactor antineutrino anomaly.

Abstract

A significant part of the present work is devoted to proving that the basic elements of the particle oscillation concept either do not correspond to the principles of classical logic, or violate the energy-momentum conservation law, or contradict the quantum mechanical basis of coherence, or represent a primitive falsehood. Our analysis concerns successively all stages of the formation of the concept from its conceiving to the assertion about the conversion of the solar electron neutrino into a muon one. When discussing a new fundamental interaction, we note the decisive role in the outcome of the processes of changing the handedness of a neutrino (antineutrino) at each act of its interaction with a real or virtual massless pseudoscalar boson, due to which, at the exit from the Sun, the fluxes of left- and right-handed electron neutrinos become approximately equal. Thanks to the new interaction, beta decays of nuclei have a mode with the emission of a massless pseudoscalar boson, at which the antineutrino changes its handedness and becomes unobservable, what is the essence of the reactor antineutrino anomaly.