A possible statistical mechanism of anomalous neutrino velocity in OPERA experiment?
Condensed Matter journal club
A possible statistical mechanism of anomalous neutrino velocity in OPERA experiment?
- Event time: 11:30am
- Event date: 7th October 2011
- Speaker: Dr Bartlomiej Waclaw (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Abstract
It is argued that the recently reported "superluminal neutrinos" could be accounted for a purely statistical effect due to the fact that only a very small fraction of initial protons is transformed into finally observed neutrinos. A simple one-dimensional model of a strongly damped Gaussian wave-packet is used to give an explanation consistent with the experimental data.Online version of article
Author
Robert Alicki
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