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Constraints and tests of the OPERA superluminal neutrinos

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-19 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The superluminal neutrinos detected by OPERA indicates Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) of the neutrino sector at the order of 10510^{-5}. We study the implications of the result in this work. We find that such a large LIV implied by OPERA data will make the neutrino production process πμ+νμ\pi \to \mu + \nu_\mu kinematically forbidden for neutrino energy greater than about 5 GeV. The OPERA detection of neutrinos at 40 GeV can constrain the LIV parameter to be smaller than 3×1073\times 10^{-7}. Furthermore the neutrino decay in the LIV framework will modify the neutrino spectrum greatly. The atmospheric neutrino spectrum measured by IceCube can constrain the LIV parameter to the level of 101210^{-12}. The future detection of astrophysical neutrinos of Galactic sources is expected to be able to give even stronger constraint on the LIV parameter of neutrinos.

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@article{arxiv.1109.6667,
  title  = {Constraints and tests of the OPERA superluminal neutrinos},
  author = {Xiao-Jun Bi and Peng-Fei Yin and Zhao-Huan Yu and Qiang Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.6667},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages (2 column), 4 figures; published in Phys. Rev. Lett