Opera Confirms: Neutrinos Travel Faster Than Light!!
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 20:20
in Physics & Chemistry
The Opera Collaboration sent to the Cornell Arxiv a new preprint today, where they summarize the results of their analysis, expanded with additional statistical tests, and including the check performed with 20 additional neutrino interactions they collected in the last few weeks. These few extra timing measurements crucially allow the ruling out of some potential unaccounted sources of systematic uncertainty, notably ones connected to the knowledge of the proton spill time distribution. These benefits come from CERN, where proton bunches have been made much shorter: down to three nanosecond long pulses. That means that Opera can measure the speed of each detected neutrino separately! read more