The strange story of superluminal neutrinos

Andrew Cohen

Department of Physics, Boston University

Last fall the OPERA collaboration reported a measurement of the speed at which neutrinos traveled from CERN to the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy that implied neutrinos were superluminal. I'll briefly describe the physics associated with this result, the outpouring of professional and popular interest in the subject, and finally the denouement wherein OPERA officially repudiated the measurement.