On the origin of the discrepancy between the expected and observed results at KamLAND

Abstract

After a logically clear and simple solution of the solar neutrino problem on the basis of the hypothesis about the existence of a new interaction involving electron neutrinos and nucleons, the question arose about the origin of the distinction between the expected and observed results of the experiment with reactor antineutrino at KamLAND. In the present work, a significant attenuation of light during its propagation in the KamLAND liquid scintillator is noted, the effect of which on the observability of the expected inverse beta-decay events and on the reconstruction of their characteristics has not been adequately analyzed. Because of this, we do not consider the declared results of the KamLAND experiment as reliable.