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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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