Oscillations of faster than light Majorana neutrinos: A Causal field theory

In this paper, we carry out the canonical quantization of the field theory of an interacting tachyonic Majorana neutrino. We show how micro-causality is preserved in the physical scattering matrix elements between the in and out vacua. The phenomenology of this radical proposal is nevertheless compatible with normal timelike oscillations.

neutrino: Majorana
tachyon
field theory
quantization
neutrino: oscillation
field equations: solution
effective Hamiltonian
vacuum state
causality

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