Sala de Juntas del IFIC (Edf. Institutos de Investigación)
Sala de Juntas del IFIC
Edf. Institutos de Investigación
Descripción
The GSI time anomaly is reviewed. It is shown that the interpretations in terms of neutrino mixing appeared in the literature are faulty. With the help of an analogy with a double-slit experiment, it is shown that the standard method of calculation of the rate of an interaction process by adding the rates of production of all the allowed final states, regardless of a possible coherence among them, is correct. It is a consequence of causality. It is shown that the GSI time anomaly may be due to quantum beats due to the existence of two coherent energy levels of the decaying ion with an extremely small energy splitting (about 10^{-15} eV) and relative probabilities having a ratio of about 1/99