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Testing Lorentz Invariance with Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Spectrum

Astrophysics 2009-10-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The GZK cutoff predicted at the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) spectrum as been observed by the HiRes and Auger experiments. The results put severe constraints on the effect of Lorentz Invariance Violation(LIV) which has been introduced to explain the absence of GZK cutoff indicated in the AGASA data. Assuming homogeneous source distribution with a single power law spectrum, we calculate the spectrum of UHECRs observed on Earth by taking the processes of photopion production, e+ee^+e^- pair production and adiabatic energy loss into account. The effect of LIV is also taken into account in the calculation. By fitting the HiRes monocular spectra and the Auger combined spectra, we show that the LIV parameter is constrained to ξ=0.80.5+3.2×1023\xi=-0.8^{+3.2}_{-0.5}\times10^{-23} and 0.00.4+1.0×10230.0^{+1.0}_{-0.4}\times10^{-23} respectively, which is well consistent with strict Lorentz Invariance up to the highest energy.

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@article{arxiv.0812.0121,
  title  = {Testing Lorentz Invariance with Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Spectrum},
  author = {Xiao-Jun Bi and Zhen Cao and Ye Li and Qiang Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.0121},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in Physical Review D 12 pages, 4 figures

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