Neutrinos Must be Tachyons

TL;DR

This paper proposes that neutrinos are tachyons, particles that travel faster than light, to explain experimental anomalies and inconsistencies with their standard model predictions.

Contribution

It introduces the hypothesis that neutrinos are tachyons, offering a new perspective to resolve negative mass squared issues and related experimental anomalies.

Findings

Negative mass squared results suggest superluminal particles

Lack of stationary neutrino detection supports tachyon hypothesis

Inconsistencies with standard model predictions

Abstract

The negative mass squared problem of the recent neutrino experiments from the five major institutions prompts us to speculate that, after all, neutrinos may be tachyons. There are number of reasons to believe that this could be the case. Stationary neutrinos have not been detected. There is no evidence of right handed neutrinos which are most likely to be observed if neutrinos can be stationary. They have the unusual property of the mass oscillation between flavors which has not been observed in the electron families. While Standard Model predicts the mass of neutrinos to be zero, the observed spectrum of Tritium decay experiments hasn't conclusively proved that the mass of neutrino is exactly zero. Based upon these observations and other related phenomena, we wish to argue that there are too many inconsistencies to fit neutrinos into the category of ordinary inside light cone particles and that the simplest possible way to resolve the mystery of the neutrino is to change our point of view and determine that neutrinos are actually tachyons.