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MINOS Anomaly as A Signal of Lorentz Violation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-07-25 v2

Abstract

Recently, the MINOS collaboration reported an anomaly that the mass-squared difference and mixing angle of νˉμ\bar{\nu}_\mu \leftrightarrow νˉτ\bar{\nu}_\tau are both different from that of νμ\nu_\mu \leftrightarrow ντ\nu_\tau. In this paper, based on the framework of neutrino oscillations, terms that break the Lorentz symmetry are used as perturbation to explain this anomaly and satisfactory results are got. Remarkably, some surprising conclusions, one of which is that in the high energy limit (hundreds of GeV) neutrino oscillation pattern will be independent of energy, are also arrived.

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@article{arxiv.1106.5927,
  title  = {MINOS Anomaly as A Signal of Lorentz Violation},
  author = {Chun Liu and Jin-tao Tian and Zhen-hua Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.5927},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

9 pages, 4 figures, references added, accepted for publication in PLB