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arxiv: 0804.1311 · v5 · submitted 2008-04-08 · ⚛️ nucl-th · astro-ph· hep-ph· nucl-ex

Neutrino masses from the GSI anomaly

classification ⚛️ nucl-th astro-phhep-phnucl-ex
keywords ionsmassesneutrinocorrectionscoulombec-decaysfieldh-like
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We investigate the influence of the strong Coulomb field of a heavy nucleus on massive neutrinos, produced in the K-shell electron capture (EC) decays of the H-like 140Pr58+ and 142Pm60+ ions. The corrections to the neutrino masses due to virtually produced charged lepton W-boson pairs in the strong Coulomb field of a nucleus with charge Ze are calculated and discussed with respect to their influence on the period of the time-modulation of the number of daughter ions, observed recently in the EC-decays of the H-like 140Pr58+ and 142Pm60+ ions at GSI in Darmstadt. These corrections explain the 2.9 times higher difference of the squared neutrino masses obtained from the time-modulation of the EC-decays with respect to the value deduced from the antineutrino-oscillation experiments of KamLAND.

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