How is lepton flavor conserved in oscillating neutrinos? Submitted by vibhumeh t3_11edidx on February 28, 2023 at 4:51 PM in askscience 2 comments 21
mfb- t1_jadbv3t wrote on February 28, 2023 at 4:54 PM > lepton flavor is conserved It's not. And you found out why not. If you try to apply this to e.g. a muon to electron+photon decay you get absurdly small branching fractions (10^(-50) or so, theorists don't bother calculating it more precisely because it's zero for all practical purposes). Permalink 14
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