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One possible feature of quantum gravity may be the violation of Lorentz invariance. In this paper we consider one particular manifestation of the violation of Lorentz invariance, namely modified dispersion relations for massive neutrinos.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dean Morgan , Elizabeth Winstanley , Jurgen Brunner , Lee F. Thompson

The GRAAL experiment could constrain the variations of the speed of light. The anisotropy of the speed of light may imply that the spacetime is anisotropic. Finsler geometry is a reasonable candidate to deal with the spacetime anisotropy.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-23 Zhe Chang , Sai Wang

Short-range experiments testing the gravitational inverse-square law at the submillimeter scale offer uniquely sensitive probes of Lorentz invariance. A combined analysis of results from the short-range gravity experiments HUST-2015,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-08 Cheng-Gang Shao , Yu-Jie Tan , Wen-Hai Tan , Shan-Qing Yang , Jun Luo , Michael Edmund Tobar , Quentin G. Bailey , J. C. Long , E. Weisman , Rui Xu , Alan Kostelecky

Lorentz invariance is a fundamental symmetry of spacetime and serves as the cornerstone of modern physics, supporting the constancy of the speed of light. A crucial implication of this principle is that no particle can propagate faster than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-26 Yu-Ming Yang , Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

In the last decade, a variety of high-precision experiments have searched for miniscule violations of Lorentz symmetry. These searches are largely motivated by the possibility of uncovering experimental signatures from a fundamental unified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Quentin G. Bailey

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

A general framework for tests of Lorentz invariance with electromagnetic waves is presented, allowing for operators of arbitrary mass dimension. Signatures of Lorentz violations include vacuum birefringence, vacuum dispersion, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Alan Kostelecky , Matthew Mewes

Time-of-flight measurements of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos can be used to probe Lorentz invariance, a pillar of modern physics. If Lorentz-invariance violation (LIV) occurs, it could cause neutrinos to slow down, with the delay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-01 Mauricio Bustamante , John Ellis , Rostislav Konoplich , Alexander S. Sakharov

Cosmic messengers (gamma rays, cosmic rays, neutrinos and gravitational waves) provide a powerful complementary way to search for Lorentz invariance violating effects to laboratory-based experiments. The long baselines and high energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-15 Carlos Pérez de los Heros , Tomislav Terzić

We consider different observational effects to test modified gravity approach involving the cosmological constant in the common description of the dark matter and the dark energy. We obtain upper limits for the cosmological constant by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 A. Amekhyan , S. Sargsyan , A. Stepanian

Lorentz violations in gravitational waves are investigated. Plane-wave solutions for arbitrary gauge-invariant violations in linearized gravity are constructed. Signatures of Lorentz violation include dispersion, birefringence, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-05 Matthew Mewes

Searches for anisotropies due to Earth's motion relative to a preferred frame -- modern versions of the Michelson-Morley experiment -- provide precise verifications of special relativity. We describe other tests, independent of this motion,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sidney Coleman , Sheldon L. Glashow

In this brief, and by no means complete, review I discuss situations in string theory, in which Lorentz Invariance Violation may occur in a way consistent with world-sheet conformal invariance, thereby leading to acceptable, in principle,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-05-07 Nikolaos E. Mavromatos

The frequencies of a cryogenic sapphire oscillator and a hydrogen maser are compared to set new constraints on a possible violation of Lorentz invariance. We determine the variation of the oscillator frequency as a function of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Wolf , S. Bize , A. Clairon , A. N. Luiten , G. Santarelli , M. E. Tobar

Extremely high-energy(EHE) cosmic rays might provide a chance to check a violation of the Lorentz symmetry of spacetime. Some theoretical consideration is described about why the Lorentz symmetry might break-down in EHE phenomena in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Humitaka Sato

One of the manifestations of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) is vacuum birefringence, which leads to an energy-dependent rotation of the polarization plane of linearly polarized photons arising from an astrophysical source. Here we use…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-25 Jun-Jie Wei

We develop a high-precision model for laser ranging interferometric (LRI) observables of the GRACE Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission. For this, we study the propagation of an electromagnetic wave in the gravitational field in the vicinity of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-29 Slava G. Turyshev , Mikhail V. Sazhin , Viktor T. Toth

Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) is a phenomenon featuring in various quantum gravity models whereby Lorentz symmetry is broken at high energies, potentially impacting the behaviour of particles and their interactions. Here we investigate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-30 Andrey Saveliev , Rafael Alves Batista

The recent direct detection of gravitational waves reported by Advanced LIGO has inspired the current article. In this context, a particular Lorentz-violating framework for classical, massive particles is the focus. The latter is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-12 M. Schreck

The effects of local Lorentz violation on dispersion and birefringence of gravitational waves are investigated. The covariant dispersion relation for gravitational waves involving gauge-invariant Lorentz-violating operators of arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Alan Kostelecky , Matthew Mewes