Saturday, 19 June 2021

One Paper that limits the axials forces right hand neutrinos and one that doesn't

Many theorys predicate right handed neutrino states, with different masses to the standard neutrinos. They are also known as sterile neutrino as they interact with no known force. Our axial force theory also has right handed neutrinos, which we don't call sterile as they interact with the axial force. During beta decay they a produced with fraction, of one axial force constant of the total decays. Now a experiment Freidrich et al has procued the first limit on an sterile neutrinos from beta decay to an electron. In experiments, Beryllium 7 decays to lithium 7, a positron and a neutrino are messured. The recoil of the lithium is measured. They exclude the mass range 100 - 850 keV for a faction of 0.01% (1 part in 10000) neutrinos being heavy. Of course a great deal of the mass range is still allowed, included the 7keV right handed neutrinos, that might explain the 3.5 keV galactic center x-ray spectra. Another paper from last here, Daya Bay and Minos looks and oscillation from standard neutrinos to other states, and excluded the Miniboone and LSND missing neutrino results at 99% confidence level. However axial force theory does not predict neutrino oscillation between the left and right handed states, instead it predicts the the right handed neutrinos produced above decay, leading to a small reduction of neutrinos in the near detectors, and slight more in far detectors, as the RH neutrinos decay back to LH ones. The paper does published the raw detector measurements, only the processed dates. But since the force constant of the axial force is small, (maybe an eightyth or hundredeth of the electromagnetic force), this probably would not be detected. This summer Microboone at Fermilab is scheduled to present further measurements that may detect or exclude some parameter space for right handed neutrino states, so we looking forward to reading the results.

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