The road toward a general relativistic metric inside the Earth and its effect on neutrino travel from CERN to GRAN-SASSO Laboratory

Abstract

In a first attempt to describe the effect on neutrino travel inside the Earth caused by general relativity in the case of a dense Earth, we have neglected the Earth's rotation, the Earth's ellipticity and also the surface terrain variation, nevertheless we have focused our attention on the density description of the Earth interior provided by geophysic's models such as PREM. Assuming a non rotating Earth, the general relativistic effect on neutrino travelling from CERN to GRAN-SASSO happened to produce a delay of $\delta t=4.1863 \, picosecond$.