Oscillations of Faster than Light Majorana Neutrinos: A Causal Field Theory

Abstract

In this paper, we carry out the canonical quantization of the field theory of an interacting tachyonic Majorana neutrino. We show how micro-causality is preserved in the physical scattering matrix elements between the in and out vacua. The phenomenology of this radical proposal is nevertheless compatible with normal timelike oscillations.

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