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Remark on "Pair Creation Constrains Superluminal Neutrino Propagation"

General Physics 2012-06-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The concept of group velocity of a particle should be consistent with its Hamilton-Jacobi velocity. This point is missed in the work of Cohen, Glashow, "{\it Pair Creation Constrains Superluminal Neutrino Propagation}" (Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 107}, 181803 (2011)). It then leads to the conclusion of existence of Cherenkov-like radiation provided one sees superluminal neutrinos. We show that in the framework of Special Relativity with de Sitter space-time symmetry (dS-SR) the above Cohen-Glashow argument does not hold and the Cherenkov-like radiation is forbidden. Our result is consistent with the experimental results of the ICARUS Collaboration.

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@article{arxiv.1203.6026,
  title  = {Remark on "Pair Creation Constrains Superluminal Neutrino Propagation"},
  author = {Sen Hu and Wei Huang and Si Li and Mu-Lin Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.6026},
  year   = {2012}
}

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