Price for environmental neutrino-superluminality

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2012)134MaRDI QIDQ2340549zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gia Dvali, Alexander Vikman

Publication date 20 April 2015

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.5685

zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelneutrino physicsspace-time symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25)

Abstract: We ask whether the recent OPERA results on neutrino superluminality could be an environmental effect characteristic of the local neighborhood of our planet, without the need of violation of the Poincar'e-invariance at a fundamental level. This explanation requires the existence of a new spin-2 field of a planetary Compton wave-length that is coupled to neutrinos and the rest of the matter asymmetrically, both in the magnitude and in the sign. Sourced by the earth this field creates an effective metric on which neutrinos propagate superluminally, whereas other species are much less sensitive to the background. Such a setup, at an effective field theory level, passes all immediate phenomenological tests and its natural prediction is an inevitable appearance of a testable long-range gravity-type fifth force. We then prove that under the assumption of the weakly-coupled Poincar'e-invariant physics, the asymmetrically-coupled second massive graviton is the only possible environmental explanation. Despite phenomenological viability, the sign asymmetry of the coupling we identify as the main potential obstacle for a consistent UV-completion. We also discuss the possible identification of this field with a Kaluza-Klein state of an extra dimension in which neutrino can propagate.

Recommendations

• Superluminal neutrinos from gauge field
• Interpreting OPERA results on superluminal neutrino
• Subluminal OPERA neutrinos
• OPERA-REASSESSING DATA ON THE ENERGY DEPENDENCE OF THE SPEED OF NEUTRINOS
• Opera superluminal neutrinos and kinematics in Finsler spacetime

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• Interaction of neutrinos with a cosmological k-essence scalar
• OPERA-REASSESSING DATA ON THE ENERGY DEPENDENCE OF THE SPEED OF NEUTRINOS
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• The hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimeter

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• Neutrino splitting and density-dependent dispersion relations
• Superluminal neutrinos from gauge field
• The 2D Gross–Neveu model for pseudovector fermions and tachyonic mass generation
• Interpreting OPERA results on superluminal neutrino
• Evanescent waves and superluminal behavior of matter

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