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arxiv: 0710.2524 · v2 · submitted 2007-10-12 · ✦ hep-ph

Neutrino time travel

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keywords bulkextraextra-dimensionalneutrinoneutrinosshortcutssterileallow
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We discuss causality properties of extra-dimensional theories allowing for effectively superluminal bulk shortcuts. Such shortcuts for sterile neutrinos have been discussed as a solution to the puzzling LSND and MiniBooNE neutrino oscillation results. We focus here on the sub-category of asymmetrically warped brane spacetimes and argue that scenarios with two extra dimensions may allow for timelike curves which can be closed via paths in the extra-dimensional bulk. In principle sterile neutrinos propagating in the extra dimension may be manipulated in a way to test the chronology protection conjecture experimentally.

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