Comment on the Comment on the paper "Can oscillating neutrino states be formulated universally?''

Abstract

Recently, our work regarding the definition of oscillating neutrino states in Eur. Phys. J. C 80: 68 (2020), arxiv:1902.01232 [hep-ph] has been commented upon in arXiv:2004.04739 [hep-ph]. In this note we show that, contrary to the claim in the comment, our above-mentioned work cannot be reproduced in the scheme of the so-called flavour Fock space approach described in the comment. Moreover, we prove explicitly that a flavour Fock space cannot exist in a model with massive mixed neutrinos. If the flavour Fock space scheme were viable, it would necessarily lead, as a consequence of Coleman's theorem, to the flavour number invariance of the Hamiltonian of mixed neutrino fields, while the Hamiltonian is by construction flavour number violating. Quod est absurdum.