Original scientific paper

An explanation of possible negative mass-square of neutrinos

Tsao Chang ; Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomy Research, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
Guangjiong Ni ; Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China and Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207, USA

Abstract

The recent data of mass-square for the electron neutrino and the muon neutrino are probably negative. Motivated by this fact, we have further investigated the hypothesis that neutrinos are superluminal fermions. A tachyonic Dirac-type equation is further studied. This equation is equivalent to two Weyl equations coupled together via nonzero mass while respecting the maximum parity violation. It reduces to one Weyl equation when the neutrino mass becomes zero.

Keywords

mass-square of neutrinos; Dirac equation; tachyonic fermions

Hrčak ID:

304066

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/304066

Publication date:

3.3.2002.

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