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Testing the OPERA Superluminal Neutrino Anomaly at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The OPERA collaboration has reported the observation of superluminal muon neutrinos, whose speed vνv_\nu exceeds that of light cc, with (vνc)/c2.5×105(v_\nu - c)/c \simeq 2.5 \times 10^{-5}. In a recent work, Cohen and Glashow (CG) have refuted this claim by noting that such neutrinos will lose energy, by pair-emission of particles, at unacceptable rates. Following the CG arguments, we point out that pair-emissions consistent with the OPERA anomaly can lead to detectable signals from decays of highly boosted top quarks at the LHC, allowing an independent test of the superluminal neutrino hypothesis.

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@article{arxiv.1110.0821,
  title  = {Testing the OPERA Superluminal Neutrino Anomaly at the LHC},
  author = {Hooman Davoudiasl and Thomas G. Rizzo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.0821},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 figures, Latex. New material, including figures and references, added. Conclusions unchanged