Published January 5, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Superluminal neutrinos and the tachyon's stability in the rotating Universe

  • 1. DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA (United Kingdom)

Description

It is well known that a hypothetical particle which moves faster than the light, a tachyon, is unstable in the Minkowski space-time. Here we shall show that, contrary to the Minkowski case, the tachyon is stable in the rotating Universe described by a family of the Gödel-like solutions, unless the absolute value of its mass is larger than some small constant which is related to the Universe's rotation scale and is many orders less than the electron's mass. The smallness of this upper bound on the tachyon's mass might be an explanation why we do not observe heavy tachyons. Mathematically, the stability bound is similar to the well-known Breitenlohner–Freedman bound for the asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) space–times.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.11.037

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2011.11.037;
arXiv
arXiv:1109.6215v5;
PII
S0370-2693(11)01409-2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
706
Journal Issue
4-5
Journal Page Range
p. 451-455
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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