Published April 2012
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Journal article
A suggestion based on the OPERA experimental apparatus
Creators
- 1. Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 800-204, Shanghai 201800 (China)
Description
To temporarily lay aside the debate about the neutrino being a bradyon or a tachyon, based on the existing apparatus and the existing technique in OPERA the best way to promote the OPERA experiment is to test the energy-velocity relation of muon neutrinos and their oscillating yields rather than only one energy point, although the energy-velocity relation is deduced for tachyons according to the inner product of a space-like momentum four-vector being a Lorentz invariant. The tendency of the curve, i.e. as a monotonic decreasing or increasing function of increasing energy, would determine whether muon neutrinos are tachyons or bradyons. (paper)
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/85/04/045005Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physica Scripta (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 85
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Journal Page Range
- [4 p.]
- ISSN
- 1402-4896
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 44005412
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- LORENTZ INVARIANCE; MUON NEUTRINOS; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; TACHYONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NEUTRINOS; POSTULATED PARTICLES