GZK photon constraints on Planck scale Lorentz violation in QED
Astrophysics
2011-07-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We show how the argument exploited by Galaverni & Sigl in Phys. Rev. Lett., 100, 021102 (2008) (see also arXiv:0708.1737) to constrain Lorentz invariance violation (LV) using Ultra-High-Energy photon non observation by the AUGER experiment, can be extended to QED with Planck-suppressed LV (at order and ). While the original constraints given by Galaverni & Sigl happen to be weakened, we show that, when used together with other EFT reactions and the expected detection of photons at eV by AUGER, this method has the potentiality not only to basically rule out order corrections but also to strongly constrain, for the first time, the CPT-even LV QED.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0805.2548,
title = {GZK photon constraints on Planck scale Lorentz violation in QED},
author = {Luca Maccione and Stefano Liberati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.2548},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
v2: Improved Introduction. Accepted by JCAP