Constraints and tests of the OPERA superluminal neutrinos
Abstract
The superluminal neutrinos detected by OPERA indicates Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) of the neutrino sector at the order of . 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 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 . 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 . 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