JUNO Energy Resolution and Detectability of WCT Ghost-Mode Neutrinos

JUNO Energy Resolution and Detectability of WCT Ghost-Mode Neutrinos
Richard J. Reyes - November 20, 2025
(Original release: November 20, 2025)

This paper establishes a quantitative detectability analysis for Wave Confinement Theory (WCT) ghost-mode neutrinos using the independently measured performance of the JUNO detector. In WCT, a neutrino corresponds to a curvature-locked ghost harmonic (node-mode n = 3), producing a small multiplicative modulation of an otherwise smooth energy spectrum. The intrinsic modulation amplitude is predicted to be Ag ≈ 1–2%, oscillatory in log-energy rather than linear energy.

The manuscript derives, from first principles, the exact convolution kernel describing JUNO’s energy smearing in log-energy space. Using JUNO’s published stochastic resolution, nonlinearity, and spatial-uniformity measurements, the work propagates these detector characteristics through the WCT ghost-mode ansatz and obtains closed-form detectability inequalities. A central result is the exponential amplitude-retention law A_eff(E) = Ag exp(−½ kℓ² σℓ²), which determines when ghost-mode oscillations survive the blurring introduced by the detector’s finite energy resolution.

The analysis shows that JUNO admits ghost-mode frequencies up to kℓ ≈ 30–60 (depending on energy) while retaining at least half of the original modulation amplitude. By comparing A_eff to JUNO’s combined systematic envelope β_max ≈ 1.5–2%, the paper derives a lower bound Ag ≥ β_max exp(½ kℓ²σℓ²), demonstrating that intrinsic amplitudes Ag ≈ 1.6% with moderate log-frequency kℓ ≲ 20–30 are, in principle, experimentally resolvable. Extended detectability tables (0.5–12 MeV) quantify the full energy-dependent window in which ghost harmonics survive JUNO smearing and exceed the systematic bias.

The manuscript further provides an oscillation-space formulation: curvature-induced shifts Δm² → Δm² + δ(Δm²) generate sub-percent corrections to the survival probability, lying precisely within JUNO’s measured sensitivity band. Together, the energy-space and oscillation-space projections show that JUNO’s realized detector performance—percent-level nonlinearity, percent-level spatial uniformity, and few-percent energy resolution—matches exactly the instrumental requirements implied by WCT ghost-mode phenomenology.

Key contributions

• Derivation of the log-energy smearing kernel implied by JUNO’s resolution model σ_E/E = √(a²/E + b²).
• Exponential damping formula for ghost-mode amplitude and closed-form visibility bounds for frequencies kℓ ≲ O(10²).
• Energy-dependent detectability inequalities Ag ≥ β_max exp(½ kℓ²σℓ²), yielding Ag ≈ 1–2% as the minimal intrinsic amplitude required for observability.
• Full detectability tables (0.5–12 MeV) using JUNO’s measured stochastic and systematic uncertainties.
• Oscillation-space curvature corrections showing sub-percent Δm² shifts within JUNO’s resolving power.
• A quantitative match between WCT ghost-mode predictions and the independently realized precision of the JUNO detector.

Relation to previous WCT volumes
This paper builds on the curvature-feedback framework and confinement operators developed in:

• Emergence of Effective Mass — Solenoidal Topology of Vibrational Energy
 Richard J. Reyes, Zenodo 2025, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15361128

• The Geometry of Resonance
 Richard J. Reyes, Zenodo 2025, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15286791

• Phase–Flux Field (PFF)
 Richard J. Reyes, Zenodo 2025, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15315798

These earlier works introduce the curvature-locked dynamics, spectral structures, and operators used here to model the neutrino as a ghost harmonic and to derive detector-level constraints.

Keywords
Neutrinos; JUNO; ghost harmonics; Wave Confinement Theory; log-energy oscillations; detector resolution; spectral modulation; curvature locking; Δm² precision; energy smearing.

Author & Contact
Author: Richard J. Reyes
ORCID iD: 0009-0005-5975-8718
Email: reyes.ricky30@gmail.com