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The influence of Lorentz violation on UHE photon detection

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-08-23 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We show that violation of the Lorentz symmetry in quantum electrodynamics can suppress the rates of the interactions crucial for the formation of photon-induced air showers, such as pair production on nuclei and in the geomagnetic field. As a consequence, the allowed region in the space of Lorentz-violating parameters will be seriously restricted if several photons with energies 1019eV\gtrsim\,10^{19}\, {eV} are detected.

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@article{arxiv.1307.8027,
  title  = {The influence of Lorentz violation on UHE photon detection},
  author = {Grigory Rubtsov and Petr Satunin and Sergey Sibiryakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.8027},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Presented at the Sixth Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, Bloomington, Indiana, June 17-21, 2013