*** Superluminal neutrinos - What OPERA saw
They measure position with geodesy, time with good clocks, and fit
the shape of the 10 microsecond proton pulse at the kicker in the
SPS with the shape of the neutrino pulse in the Gran Sasso. Nus
appear 60.7+-6.9 +-7.4 ns early. (v-c)/c = 2.48+-0.28+-0.30 e-5.
arXiv:1109.4897
*** Superluminal neutrinos - What MINOS saw
With geodesy and a not-so-good clock, MINOS in 2007 fit the shape
of the nu pulse in the near and far detectors (v-c)/c=5.1+-2.7e-5.
arXiv:0706.0437. A task force is looking into new clocks, etc.
*** Superluminal neutrinos - When people looked at Wickipedia
I once saw a Monte Carlo study that, if within a group of
people, everyone repeated a rumor until they hit someone that
had heard it, about 28% of the group would hear it. The
announcement was 23 Sep. I heard it on 15 Sep. Maybe
it started 10 Sep? http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Tachyon
*** Superluminal neutrinos - What we'll learn
I first learned about neutrino oscillations from a Robert Shrock
lecture after there was a rumor that an experiment at SIN had
observed muons decaying to e-gamma. I don't know if the data was
ever published. Over the next weeks, we'll certainly learn about
the accuracy of GPS clocks including GR effects, time-dependent
ripple in kicker magnets, subtleties of the differences between
group velocity versus phase velocity, Gauss-Boaga surveying,...
*** Superluminal neutrinos - links
http://xkcd.com/955/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2011/09/28/faster-light-experiments
Taken From Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Newsletters
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