Superluminal Neutrinos from Gauge Field

Abstract

We consider a possibility that the recent OPERA results on neutrinos' superluminality could be caused by a local effect of a new gauge field sourced by the earth. If neutrinos couple to this gauge field via a gauge-invariant but non-renormalizable interaction, the coupling effectively changes a background metric, thereby leading to superluminality of neutrinos. This possibility naturally might explain why neutrinos from CERN CNGS beam to Gran Sasso Laboratory become superluminal while those from SN1987A to Earth become subluminal.

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