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Constraints on Lorentz invariance violation from gamma-ray burst GRB090510

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-01-18 v6 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We obtain modified dispersion relations by requiring the vanishing of determinant of inverse of modified photon propagators in Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) theory. Inspired by these dispersion relations, we give a more general dispersion relation with less assumption and apply it to the recent observed gamma-ray burst GRB090510 to extract various constraints on LIV parameters. We find that the constraint on quantum gravity mass is slightly larger than the Planck mass but is consistent with the other recent observations, so the corresponding LIV coefficient ξ1\xi_1 has reached the natural order (o(1)o(1)) as one expects. From our analysis, the linear LIV corrections to photon group velocity might be not excluded yet.

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@article{arxiv.0909.4927,
  title  = {Constraints on Lorentz invariance violation from gamma-ray burst GRB090510},
  author = {Zhi Xiao and Bo-Qiang Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.4927},
  year   = {2010}
}

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10 latex pages, no figures, version accepted for publication in PRD