"OPERA superluminal neutrinos explained by spontaneous emission and stimulated absorption"

TL;DR

This paper explains the OPERA superluminal neutrino observations by modeling shape deforming effects caused by spontaneous emission and stimulated absorption, aligning theoretical predictions with experimental data.

Contribution

It introduces a novel quantum optical model involving spontaneous emission and stimulated absorption to explain neutrino shape deformation and early arrival times.

Findings

Short neutrino pulses show shape deformation due to spontaneous emission.

Long neutrino pulses' early arrival explained by stimulated absorption and spontaneous emission.

Model aligns with observed superluminal neutrino data.

Abstract

In this work it is shown, that for short 3ns neutrino pulses reported by OPERA, a relativistic shape deforming effect of the neutrino distribution function due to spontaneous emission, produces an earlier arrival of 65.8ns in agreement with the reported 62.1ns\pm 3.7ns, with a RMS of 16.4ns explaining the apparent superluminal effect. It is also shown, that early arrival of long 10500ns neutrinos pulse to Gran Sasso, by 57.8ns with respect to the speed of light, could be explained by a shape deforming effect due to a combination of stimulated absorption and spontaneous emission, while traveling by the decay tunnel that acts as a LASER tube.