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Ehrlich, Robert; Jentschura, Ulrich D.
Funding organisation: SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
arXiv e-print [ PDF ]2016
Funding organisation: SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
arXiv e-print [ PDF ]2016
AbstractAbstract
[en] Current experiments do not exclude the possibility that one or more neutrinos are very slightly superluminal or that they have a very small tachyonic mass. Important bounds on the size of a hypothetical tachyonic neutrino mass term are set by lepton pair Čerenkov radiation (LPCR), that is, by the decay channel ν→e"+e"-ν, which proceeds via a virtual Z"0 boson. Here, we use a Lorentz-invariant dispersion relation which leads to very tight constraints on the tachyonic mass of neutrinos; we also calculate decay and energy loss rates. A possible cutoff seen in the IceCube neutrino spectrum for E_ν>2 PeV, due to the potential onset of LPCR, is discussed.
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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4764981; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/16437; PUBLISHER-ID: 4764981; ARXIV: arXiv:1607.00640v1; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:16437; This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The publication of this article was funded by SCOAP3.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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Advances in High Energy Physics (Online); ISSN 1687-7365;
; v. 2016; [8 p.]

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