Timeline for Is it experimentally verified that the neutrinos are affected by gravity?
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| Jul 19, 2015 at 17:10 | comment | added | john | In the current SM the neutrinos have zero mass. I think all attempts to incorporate a finite neutrino mass into the SM have failed so far. So there could be a different reason why neutrinos oscillate, Physics beyond the SM, or does this make no sense? | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 22:20 | comment | added | Nontriviality | How would you explain neutrino oscillations otherwise? | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 20:51 | comment | added | john | ok your right, I mixed something up there. but still, saying that neutrinos have mass, because... is a bit daring | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 20:39 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @john Neutrino mass only implies neutrinoless double beta decay if the neutrinos have Majorana rather then Fermi nature. That is what the $0\nu2\beta$ experiments are working on. | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 20:00 | comment | added | john | I agree with your observation about photons. But I would be careful with saying something like this about neutrinos. Experimentally there is only an upper bound for the neutrino masses, and the fact that neutrinos oscillate might imply that they have mass, but there is no consistent frame work for describing neutrinos, so the implication might also be false. If Neutrinos had mass we would also expect to see neutrinoless double beta decay, which we haven't seen (yet) | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 19:14 | history | answered | CStarAlgebra | CC BY-SA 3.0 |