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Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) introduced as a generic modification to particle dispersion relations can change the photon energy threshold of pair-production, which modifies the expected gamma-ray flux from astrophysical sources. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-11 Humberto Martínez-Huerta , Rodrigo G. Lang , Vitor de Souza

Deformed relativistic kinematics, expected to emerge in a flat-spacetime limit of quantum gravity, predicts violation of discrete symmetries at energy scale in the vicinity of the Planck mass. Momentum-dependent deformations of the C, P and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-04 Wojciech Wislicki

High-energy astrophysics observations provide the best possibilities to detect a very small violation of Lorentz invariance, such as may be related to the structure of space-time near the Planck scale. I discuss the possible signatures of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 Floyd W. Stecker

Trying to combine standard quantum field theories with gravity leads to a breakdown of the usual structure of space-time at around the Planck length, 1.6*10^{-35} m, with possible violations of Lorentz invariance. Calculations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 John Collins , Alejandro Perez , Daniel Sudarsky , Luis Urrutia , Héctor Vucetich

We search for Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) by re-analyzing the spectral lag data for GRB 190114C from Fermi-GBM using frequentist analysis, where we deal with the astrophysical nuisance parameters using profile likelihood. For this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-20 Vyaas Ramakrishnan , Shantanu Desai

Special relativity has been tested at low energy with great accuracy, but these results cannot be extrapolated to the very high-energy region. Introducing a critical distance scale, $a$ , below 10E-25 cm (the wavelength scale of the…

General Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Luis Gonzalez-Mestres

In attempts to unify the four known fundamental forces in a single quantum-consistent theory, it is suggested that Lorentz symmetry may be broken at the Planck scale. Here we search for Lorentz violation at the low-energy limit by comparing…

Lorentz invariance violation (LV) is examined through the time delay between high-energy and low-energy photons in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Previous studies determined the LV energy scale as $E_{\rm LV} \simeq 3.60 \times 10^{17}$~GeV using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-02 Hanlin Song , Bo-Qiang Ma

We discuss the applicability of the argument of Collins, P\'erez, Sudarsky, Urrutia and Vucetich to loop quantum gravity. This argument suggests that Lorentz violations, even ones that only manifest themselves at energies close to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-13 Rodolfo Gambini , Saeed Rastgoo , Jorge Pullin

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

We reanalyze the spectral lag data for GRB 160625B using frequentist inference in order to constrain the energy scale ($E_{QG}$) of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV). For this purpose, we use profile likelihood to deal with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 Shantanu Desai , Shalini Ganguly

Lorentz violation (LV) is predicted by some quantum gravity (QG) candidates, wherein the canonical energy-momentum dispersion relation, $E^2=p^2+m^2$, is modified. Consequently, new phenomenons beyond the standard model are predicted.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-07 Lijing Shao , Bo-Qiang Ma

The recent observation of gravitational waves by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration provides a unique opportunity to probe the extreme gravity of coalescing binary black holes. In this regime, the gravitational interaction is not only strong, but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-21 Nicolas Yunes

In the present paper a self-consistent theory, interpreting the VERITAS observations of the very high energy pulsed emission from the Crab pulsar is considered. The photon spectrum between 10MeV and 400GeV can be described by two power-law…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-13 Nino Chkheidze , George Machabeli , Zaza Osmanov

We present the results of a joint observational campaign between the Green Bank radio telescope and the VERITAS gamma-ray telescope, which searched for a correlation between the emission of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays ($E_{\gamma} >$…

We reconsider Lorentz Violation (LV) at the fundamental level. We show that Lorentz Violation is intimately connected with gravity and that LV couplings in QFT must always be fields in a gravitational sector. Diffeomorphism invariance must…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Elias Kiritsis

Most current models of Lorentz symmetry violation (LSV) at the Planck scale involve power-like extrapolations of the Lorentz-beaking term down to accelerator and even much lower energies. It is therefore assumed that no intermediate energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Luis Gonzalez-Mestres

Due to the high energies and long distances involved, astrophysical observations provide a unique opportunity to test possible signatures of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV). Superluminal LIV enables the decay of photons at high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-27 H. Martínez-Huerta , S. Marinelli , J. T. Linnemann , J. Lundeen

As a potential consequence of Lorentz invariance violation~(LIV), threshold anomalies open a window to study LIV. Recently the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory~(LHAASO) reported that more than 5000 photons from GRB 221009A have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-14 Hao Li , Bo-Qiang Ma

Lorentz symmetry violation (LSV) at Planck scale can be tested (see e.g. physics/0003080) through ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR). In a deformed Lorentz symmetry (DLS) pattern where the effective LSV parameter varies like the square…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Luis Gonzalez-Mestres