Superluminal neutrinos and the Standard Model

2011/10/16 by Jorge Alfaro, Alfaro, Jorge
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Neutrino Physics Research #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1110.3540

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Abstract

Recently the OPERA collaboration \citeopera has reported the observation of superluminal neutrinos traveling a distance of 730 km from Grand Sasso Laboratory to CERN.These results contradict the basic tenet of the Theory of Special Relativity: No particle can travel faster than light in vacuum. Moreover they seem to be in conflict with the speed of (anti)neutrinos detected from the explosion of the SP1987A Super Nova\citeSP1987A.Here we show that the relative velocity between neutrino and photon has the following property: It depends weakly on the energy of the particle excepts in certain regions(thresholds) where discrete jumps appear.This explains both Opera and SP1987A Super Nova data.

Citations

• Comment on Jerrold Franklin, Superluminal neutrinos, arXiv:1110.0234v1
• Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam
• Neutrino oscillations and superluminal propagation, in OPERA or\n otherwise

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