Testing Relativity with High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2015-06-17 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The recent observation of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos can be used to constrain violations of Lorentz invariance emerging from a quantum theory of gravity. We perform threshold and Cherenkov analyses that improve existing bounds by factors ranging from about a million to 10^{20}.
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@article{arxiv.1308.6344,
title = {Testing Relativity with High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos},
author = {Jorge S. Diaz and Alan Kostelecky and Matthew Mewes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.6344},
year = {2015}
}
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