Tritium beta-decay endpoint for a Tachyonic Neutrino that travels Faster than Light

2004/10/12 by Ngee-Pong Chang, Chang, Ngee-Pong
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0410175

9 pages, 2 figures

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Abstract

In this paper, we study the tritium β-decay in the field theory of the superluminal (faster-than-light) neutrino. We show how the unstable transient modes with q ⋅ q < m_ν² lead to an excess of events at the endpoint.

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