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Lorentz violation from gamma-ray burst neutrinos

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-10-04 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The Lorentz violation~(LV) effect of ultra-relativistic particles can be tested by gamma-ray burst~(GRB) neutrinos and photons. The IceCube Collaboration has observed plenty of ultra-high energy neutrinos, including four events of PeV scale neutrinos. Recent studies suggested a possible energy dependent speed variation of GRB neutrinos in a similar way to that of GRB photons. Here we find that all four events of PeV neutrinos with associated GRB candidates can satisfy a regularity found from TeV neutrinos about a linear form correlation between the observed time difference and the LV factor. Such regularity indicates a Lorentz violation scale ELV=(6.5±0.4)×1017 GeVE_{\rm LV}=(6.5\pm 0.4)\times10^{17}~{\rm GeV}, which is comparable with that determined by GRB photons. We also suggest that neutrinos and anti-neutrinos can be superluminal and subluminal respectively due to opposite signs of LV correction.

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@article{arxiv.1810.01652,
  title  = {Lorentz violation from gamma-ray burst neutrinos},
  author = {Yanqi Huang and Bo-Qiang Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.01652},
  year   = {2018}
}

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7 latex pages, 5 figures, a slightly revised version