Apparent Lorentz violation with superluminal Majorana neutrinos at OPERA?

Abstract

From the data release of OPERA - CNGS experiment, and publicly announced on 23 September 2011, we cast a phenomenological model based on a Majorana neutrino state carrying a fictitious imaginary mass term, already discussed by Majorana in 1932. This mass term can be induced by the interaction with the matter of the Earth's crust during the 735 Km travel. Within the experimental errors, we prove that the model fits with OPERA, MINOS and supernova SN1987a data. Possible violations to Lorentz invariance due to quantum gravity effects have been considered.

4 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, updated with new data, new figure. Higgs mass expected at (273.56 {\pm} 0.01) GeV

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