Reduced Photon Velocities in the OPERA Neutrino Experiment and Supernova 1987a

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2011-11-28

arxiv.org/abs/1111.6986v3

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

14 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

The recent OPERA experiment (Adam et al., arXiv:1109.4897v2) appears to suggest that neutrinos may travel faster than the speed of light. A theory is considered here in which the gravitational potential is included in the Hamiltonian of quantum electrodynamics, which results in virtual electrons and positrons having the same gravitational potential energy as real particles. A calculation based on that assumption shows that the velocity of photons in a gravitational potential should be reduced compared to that of neutrinos. The estimated magnitude of this effect is too small to explain the results of the OPERA experiment, but it does suggest a possible explanation for the anomalous arrival time of the first burst of neutrinos observed during Supernova 1987a.

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