Neutrino Oscillations and Short Transit Times

The Stueckelberg formulation of a manifestly covariant relativistic classical and quantum

mechanics is briefly reviewed and it is shown that in this framework a simple model

exists for which, for systems with flavor oscillations, measured beam transit times can be

shortened. We show that this phenomenon could provide a mechanism for a “pull back”

in measured time during the transit of a beam of neutrinos but for which the speed is

almost everywhere less than light speed. The model is shown to be consistent with the

field equations and the Lorentz force for Glashow-Salam-Weinberg type non-Abelian fields

interacting with the leptons. This result can be considered as a prediction of the outcome

of experiments designed to resolve the presently conflicting evidence for this effect.