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Do high-energy neutrinos travel faster than photons in a discrete space-time?

2011/10/31 by She-Sheng Xue · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2011.11.001

revised version to appear in Phys. Lett. B. 13 pages and 2 figures

arxiv created 2011/11/01 · arxiv updated 2015/05/29

Abstract

The recent OPERA measurement of high-energy neutrino velocity, once independently verified, implies new physics in the neutrino sector. We revisit the theoretical inconsistency of the fundamental high-energy cutoff attributing to quantum gravity with the parity-violating gauge symmetry of local quantum field theory describing neutrinos. This inconsistency suggests high-dimension operators of neutrino interactions. Based on these studies, we try to view the OPERA result, high-energy neutrino oscillations and indicate to observe the restoration of parity conservation by measuring the asymmetry of high-energy neutrinos colliding with left- and right-handed polarized electrons.

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