Published January 5, 2012
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Journal article
Superluminal neutrinos and the tachyon's stability in the rotating Universe
Creators
- 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.2011.11.037Additional details
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
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Syrian Arab Republic
- INIS RN
- 43098367
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANTI DE SITTER GROUP; ANTI DE SITTER SPACE; ELECTRONS; MASS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MINKOWSKI SPACE; NEUTRINOS; ROTATION; SPACE-TIME; STABILITY; TACHYONS; UNIVERSE
- Descriptors DEC
- ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; LEPTONS; LIE GROUPS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MOTION; POSTULATED PARTICLES; SPACE; SYMMETRY GROUPS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.