On the Possibility of Superluminal Neutrino Propagation

Details On the Possibility of Superluminal Neutrino Propagation On the Possibility of Superluminal Neutrino Propagation

2011-09-28

arxiv.org/abs/1109.6296v3

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

15 pages, replacement has an expanded and revised version of the second model; Notes added on how this model evades the Cohen-

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We analyze the possibility of superluminal neutrino propagation delta v = (v - c)/c > 0 as indicated by OPERA data, in view of previous phenomenological constraints from supernova SN1987a and gravitational Cerenkov radiation. We argue that the SN1987a data rule out delta v ~ (E_\nu/M_N)^N for N \le 2 and exclude, in particular, a Lorentz-invariant interpretation in terms of a 'conventional' tachyonic neutrino. We present two toy Lorentz-violating theoretical models, one a Lifshitz-type fermion model with superluminality depending quadratically on energy, and the other a Lorentz-violating modification of a massless Abelian gauge theory with axial-vector couplings to fermions. In the presence of an appropriate background field, fermions may propagate superluminally or subluminally, depending inversely on energy, and on direction. Reconciling OPERA with SN1987a would require this background field to depend on location.

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