Issue |
EPL
Volume 97, Number 3, February 2012
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Article Number | 39003 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/97/39003 | |
Published online | 06 February 2012 |
Neutrino currents in the absolute spacetime: Relating the refractive index of the aether to the OPERA excess velocity
Department of Physics, Hiroshima University - 1-3-1 Kagami-yama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
Received:
12
October
2011
Accepted:
2
January
2012
The superluminal neutrino velocity measured by the OPERA experiment is explained in a non-relativistic spacetime conception. Spacetime is viewed as a permeable medium of wave propagation. The neutrino wave equation is coupled to a permeability tensor, like electromagnetic fields in dielectric media. The inertial frame in which this tensor is isotropic defines a distinguished frame of reference, the rest frame of the aether. The dispersion relation of the spinorial wave modes gives rise to a superluminal group velocity of the energy flux. The Gordon decomposition of spinor currents in a refractive and dispersive spacetime is performed with finite as well as zero rest mass. The convective and spin components of the superluminal neutrino current are related to the permeability tensor. The refractive index of the aether depends on the neutrino energy, and is inferred in the 10 to 50 GeV range from the measured excess velocity. Implications of the superluminal speed of signal transfer regarding relativity principles and causality are discussed.
PACS: 95.30.Sf – Relativity and gravitation / 98.80.Jk – Mathematical and relativistic aspects of cosmology / 14.60.Lm – Ordinary neutrinos
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