Common origin of superluminal neutrinos and DAMA annual modulation
Popular Physics
2013-04-02 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We suggest that the recently observed superluminal neutrino propagation observed by OPERA may have an environmental origin that can simultaneously explain the DAMA/LIBRA annual modulation. Our proposal can be unambiguously tested by the prediction that OPERA will also observe an annual modulation in the speed of neutrinos. Experiments geographically distant from Gran Sasso will however not be able to observe these effects. We do not rely upon any violation of Lorentz symmetry except for spontaneous breaking of translational invariance. We discuss implications for the CRESST experiment, also located at Gran Sasso.
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@article{arxiv.1304.0038,
title = {Common origin of superluminal neutrinos and DAMA annual modulation},
author = {Gerald Xavier Gilbert-Thorple and Jôsé J. Jesus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.0038},
year = {2013}
}
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4 pages, 2 of which are references