Neutrino oscillations as many-particle induced interference between distinguishable particles

Abstract

We investigate the causes of the curious property of neutrino oscillations of looking as an interference between fully distinguishable particles. The sources of this effect are identified as to be determined by the many particle nature of space of states of the quantum field theory. It is firstly underlined that in order to explain the observed oscillations, the neutrino subspace of states should not be interpreted as the direct product of the three neutrinos Fock spaces, which is equivalent to imposing a superselection rule. Further, it is argued that the linear completion of such a direct product space of states permits to describe the measured oscillations. Thus, the space of states of te Standard Model (SM) should be interpreted as the linear completion of the direct product of all the Fock spaces (boson or fermions ones) associated to the distinguishable particles. Then, it follows that the neutrino oscillations are determined as interference between independent particles, which are generated by states being outside the direct product of the neutrino Fock spaces. This interpretation seems to imply a large amount of interference observations between distinguishable particles in Particle as well as in Condensed Matter Physics. For seeking clearness, the discussion is done in the framework of a simple Quantum Field Theory (QFT) model of two relativistic free massive neutrinos.