Apparent faster than light propagation from light sterile neutrinos
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-10-04 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
Recent data from the OPERA experiment seem to point to neutrinos propagating faster than light. One possible physics explanation for such a result is the existence of light sterile neutrinos which can propagate in a higher dimensional bulk and achieve apparent superluminal velocities when measured by an observer confined to the 4D brane of the standard model. Such a model has the advantage of easily being able to explain the non-observation of superluminal neutrinos from SN1987A. Here we discuss the phenomenological implications of such a model and show that it can provide an explanation for the observed faster than light propagation of neutrinos.
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@article{arxiv.1109.6282,
title = {Apparent faster than light propagation from light sterile neutrinos},
author = {Steen Hannestad and Martin S. Sloth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.6282},
year = {2011}
}
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