Eur. Phys. J. C (2011) 71: 1801
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1801-4

Letter

Could dynamical Lorentz symmetry breaking induce the superluminal neutrinos?

¹ Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
² Kobayashi–Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
³ Instituciò Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and Institut de Ciencies de l’Espai (IEEC-CSIC), Campus UAB, Facultat de Ciencies, Torre C5-Par-2a pl, 08193, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
⁴ Tomsk State Pedagogical University, Tomsk, Russia

^* e-mail: nojiri@phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Received: 5 October 2011
Revised: 24 October 2011
Published online: 16 November 2011

Abstract

A toy fermion model coupled to the Lagrange multiplier constraint field is proposed. The possibility of superluminal neutrino propagation as a result of dynamical Lorentz symmetry breaking is studied.