Spontaneously broken Lorentz invariance from the dynamics of a heavy sterile neutrino
arXiv:1111.4931 · doi:10.1134/S0021364012100062
Abstract
A relativistic theory for neutrino superluminality is presented (in principle, the same mechanism applies also to other fermions). The theory involves the standard-model particles and one additional heavy sterile neutrino with an energy-scale close to or above the electroweak one, all particles propagating in the usual 3+1 spacetime dimensions. Lorentz violation results from spontaneous symmetry breaking in the sterile-neutrino sector. The theory tries, as far as possible, to be consistent with the existing experimental data from neutrino physics and to keep the number of assumptions minimal. There are clear experimental predictions which can be tested.
4 pages, v7: published version
References in corpus (9)
- New Constraints on Neutrino Velocities
- Measurement of neutrino velocity with the MINOS detectors and NuMI neutrino beam
- Vacuum Cherenkov radiation in spacelike Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory
- Spontaneous Breaking of Lorentz Invariance
- Astrophysical Limits on Lorentz Violation for All Charged Species
- Interpreting OPERA results on superluminal neutrino
- Could the dynamical Lorentz symmetry breaking induce the superluminal neutrinos?
- Constraints on the interpretation of the superluminal motion of neutrinos at OPERA
- Superluminal neutrino, flavor, and relativity