Superluminal nutrinos at OPERA confront pion decay kinematics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 25, 2011, Pages

  Cowsik, Ramanath ^a   Nussinov, Shmuel ^b,c   Sarkar, Utpal ^a,d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY KINEMATICS; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; MUON NEUTRINO; SUPER-LUMINAL VELOCITY; SUPERLUMINAL;

CHARGED PARTICLES; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; KINEMATICS;

HADRONS;

EID: 83655193110     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.251801     Document Type: Article

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