[time-nuts] Neutrinos not so fast? (defectove connector)

Arnold Tibus arnold.tibus at gmx.de
Thu Feb 23 13:47:41 UTC 2012


Just for completeliness I was pointed to this information:
http://www.nature.com/news/flaws-found-in-faster-than-light-neutrino-measurement-1.10099

Arnold



Am 23.02.2012 12:21, schrieb Azelio Boriani:
> I have found the official CERN director's words: (from Marco URLs)
> Ecco l’annuncio del Direttore del CERN:
> The OPERA collaboration has informed its funding agencies and host
> laboratories that it has identified two possible effects that could have an
> influence on its neutrino timing measurement. These both require further
> tests with a short pulsed beam. If confirmed, one would increase the size
> of the measured effect, the other would diminish it. The first possible
> effect concerns an oscillator used to provide the time stamps for GPS
> synchronizations. It could have led to an overestimate of the neutrino’s
> time of flight. The second concerns the optical fibre connector that brings
> the external GPS signal to the OPERA master clock, which may not have been
> functioning correctly when the measurements were taken. If this is the
> case, it could have led to an underestimate of the time of flight of the
> neutrinos. The potential extent of these two effects is being studied by
> the OPERA collaboration. New measurements with short pulsed beams are
> scheduled for May”.
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Magnus Danielson<
> magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>  wrote:
>
>> Hi Javier,
>>
>>
>> On 02/23/2012 09:42 AM, Javier Serrano wrote:
>>
>>> So please stay tuned for proper information. That's all I can say for now.
>>>
>> Which is more or less all you should say. I agree fully with you.
>>
>>  From a scientific point of view, all we have heard is indications, but it
>> needs to be verified.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Magnus
>>
>>
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