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by Panoramix·15y ago·view on hn ↗
Experimental error seems likely to me once again. 10ns at c is 3 meters, over 730km + uncertainty in time of particle generation and decay + detector uncertainty...I don't buy it. From the project site: http://operaweb.lngs.infn.it/spip.php?rubrique41

OPERA needs an intense and energetic beam of muon neutrinos traveling a distance of hundreds of kilometers to seek for the appearance of oscillated tau neutrinos. A beam of this type is generated from collisions of accelerated protons with a graphite target after focussing the particles produced (pions and kaons in particular) in the desired direction. The products of their decays, muons and neutrinos, continue to travel in generally the same direction as the parent particle. Muon neutrinos produced in this way at CERN cross the earth crust reaching OPERA after a 732 km journey.

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>I don't buy it

I didn't mean to try to 'sell' anything, though I agree that my comment was needlessly biased here. Revised it accordingly.