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On chirality and chiral neutrino oscillations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-06-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

It has been claimed in a number of publications that neutrinos can exhibit chirality oscillations. In this note we discuss the notion of chirality and show that chiral neutrino oscillations in vacuum do not occur. We argue that the incorrect claims to the contrary resulted from a failure to clearly discriminate between quantum fields, states and wave functions. We also emphasize the role played in the erroneous claims on the possibility of chirality oscillations by the widely spread misconceptions about negative energies.

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@article{arxiv.2505.20982,
  title  = {On chirality and chiral neutrino oscillations},
  author = {Evgeny Akhmedov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.20982},
  year   = {2025}
}

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LaTeX, 9 pages. v2: explanatory note added in sec. 2; minor textual changes in sec. 4