Faster-than-light neutrinos dealt another blow

January 5, 2012 | Source: New Scientist
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The OPERA detector (credit: INFN)

A team including Shmuel Nussinov of Tel Aviv University in Israel says the OPERA report that neutrinos faster than light also violates the principle of the conservation of energy.

The energy available to faster-than-light neutrinos from the CERN source (pions) is too small by a factor of 10 to explain the speeds reported, they said.

Ref.: Ramanath Cowsik1, Shmuel Nussinov, and Utpal Sarkar, Superluminal Neutrinos at OPERA Confront Pion Decay Kinematics, Physical Review Letters, 2011 [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.251801]

See also: Neutrinos: Complete guide to the ghostly particle