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The possibility that Pamir data at very high energy cannot be fully explained by standard physics has recently led to the suggestion that the peculiar jet structure observed above ~ 10E16 eV could be due to a suppression of effective space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-30 Luis Gonzalez-Mestres

There exist two deformations of standard electrodynamics that describe Lorentz symmetry violation in the photon sector: CPT-odd Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory and CPT-even modified Maxwell theory. In this article, we focus on the parity-odd…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Marco Schreck

Non-trivial solutions in string field theory may lead to the spontaneous breaking of Lorentz invariance and to new tensor-matter interactions. It is argued that requiring the contribution of the vacuum expectation values of Lorentz tensors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Orfeu Bertolami

In quantum theory of gravity, we expect the Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) and the modification of the dispersion relation between energy and momentum for photons. The effect of the energy-dependent velocity due to the modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-24 Yu Pan , Yungui Gong , Shuo Cao , He Gao , Zong-Hong Zhu

Lorentz invariance is one of the basic ingredients of quantum field theories and violations of it are stringently constrained experimentally. Therefore, the possibility of Lorentz violation (LV) is usually realized at very high energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-17 Andreas Crivellin , Fiona Kirk , Marco Schreck

Working in the context of a Lorentz-violating extension of the standard model we show that estimates of Lorentz symmetry violation extracted from ultra-high energy cosmic rays beyond the Greisen-Kuzmin-Zatsepin (GZK) cutoff allow for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Bertolami , C. S. Carvalho

We consider an extension of the Standard Model with isotropic nonbirefringent Lorentz violation in the photon sector and restrict the discussion to the case of a "fast" photon with a phase velocity larger than the maximum attainable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-20 F. R. Klinkhamer

Recently, a scheme to analyse topological phases in Quantum Mechanics by means of the non-relativistic limit of fermions non-minimally coupled to a Lorentz-breaking background has been proposed. In this letter, we show that the fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Belich , T. Costa-Soares , M. M. Ferreira , J. A. Helayel-Neto , M. T. D. Orlando

Infrared, optical, and ultraviolet spectropolarimetry of cosmological sources is used to constrain the pure electromagnetic sector of a general Lorentz-violating standard-model extension. The coefficients for Lorentz violation are bounded…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Alan Kostelecky , Matthew Mewes

The effects of Lorentz-violating operators of nonrenormalizable dimension in optical resonate cavities are studied. Optical-frequency experiments are shown to provide sensitivity to nondispersive nonbirefringent violations that is many…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-30 Matthew Mewes

Current limits on violation of local Lorentz invariance in the photon sector are derived mainly from experiments that search for a spatial anisotropy in the speed of light. The presently operating gravitational wave detectors are Michelson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-11 Adrian C. Melissinos

The preliminary detections of the gamma-ray burst 221009A up to 18 TeV by LHAASO and up to 251 TeV by Carpet 2 have been reported through Astronomer's Telegrams and Gamma-ray Coordination Network circulars. Since this burst is at redshift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-14 Justin D. Finke , Soebur Razzaque

In this paper, we investigate an electrodynamics in which the physical modes are coupled to a Lorentz-violating (LV) background by means of a higher-derivative term. We analyze the modes associated with the dispersion relations (DRs)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Rodolfo Casana , Manoel M. Ferreira, , Letícia Lisboa-Santos , Frederico E. P. dos Santos , Marco Schreck

We investigate the consequences of higher dimension Lorentz violating, CPT even kinetic operators that couple standard model fields to a non-zero vector field in an Effective Field Theory framework. Comparing the ultra-high energy cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-02 Luca Maccione , Andrew M. Taylor , David M. Mattingly , Stefano Liberati

Generic violations of Lorentz symmetry can be described by an effective field theory framework that contains both general relativity and the standard model of particle physics called the Standard-Model Extension (SME). We obtain new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-21 Quentin G. Bailey , Ryan D. Everett , James M. Overduin

The CPT-odd and Lorentz-violating Carroll-Field-Jackiw modification of electrodynamics is discussed and we study its effects on the energy spectrum of hydrogen, as well as in the generation of a momentum-dependent electric dipole moment for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-27 Y. M. P. Gomes , P. C. Malta

We investigate experiments that are sensitive to the scalar and parity-odd coefficients for Lorentz violation in the photon sector of the Standard Model Extension (SME). We show that of the classic tests of special relativity, Ives-Stilwell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Michael E. Tobar , Peter Wolf , Alison Fowler , John G. Hartnett

One of the experimental tests of Lorentz invariance violation is to measure the helicity dependence of the propagation velocity of photons originating in distant cosmological obejcts. Using a recent determination of the distance of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 P. Laurent , D. Gotz , P. Binetruy , S. Covino , A. Fernandez-Soto

In the recent times, test of Lorentz Invariance has been used as a means to probe theories of physics beyond the standard model. We describe a simple way of utilizing the polarimeters, which are a critical beam instrument at precision and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-01-13 Prajwal Mohanmurthy , Dipangkar Dutta , Amrendra Narayan

Spectropolarimetry of distant sources of electromagnetic radiation at wavelengths ranging from infrared to ultraviolet are used to constrain Lorentz violation. A bound of 3x10^{-32} is placed on coefficients for Lorentz violation.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Matthew Mewes