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Constraints on Lorentz invariance violation using HAWC observations above 100 TeV

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2019-08-27 v1

Abstract

Due to the high energies and long distances involved, astrophysical observations provide a unique opportunity to test possible signatures of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV). Superluminal LIV enables the decay of photons at high energy over relatively short distances, giving astrophysical spectra which have a hard cutoff above this energy. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is the most sensitive currently-operating gamma-ray observatory in the world above 10 TeV. Together with the recent development of an energy-reconstruction algorithm for HAWC using an artificial neural network, HAWC can make detailed measurements of gamma-ray energies above 100 TeV. With these observations, HAWC can limit the LIV energy scale greater than 103110^{31} eV, over 800 times the Planck energy scale. This limit on LIV is over 60 times more constraining than the best previous value for ELIV(1)\rm E_{LIV}^{(1)}.

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@article{arxiv.1908.09614,
  title  = {Constraints on Lorentz invariance violation using HAWC observations above 100 TeV},
  author = {H. Martínez-Huerta and S. Marinelli and J. T. Linnemann and J. Lundeen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.09614},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Presented at the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2019)

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