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Fast variations of gamma-ray flux from Active Galactic Nuclei and Gamma-Ray Bursts can constrain Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) because of the delayed (or advanced) arrival of photons with higher energies: this approach has lead to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Markus Gaug , Daniel Garrido

In the gravity quantum theory, the quantization of spacetime may lead to the modification of the dispersion relation between the energy and the momentum and the Lorentz invariance violation (LIV). High energy and long-distance gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Mingyue Chen , Jun Tian , Yu Pan , Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao

Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays that produce giant extensive showers of charged particles and photons when they interact in the Earth's atmosphere provide a unique tool to search for new physics. Of particular interest is the possibility of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-17 Floyd W. Stecker , Sean T. Scully

Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) in gamma rays can have multiple consequences, such as energy-dependent photon group velocity, photon instability, vacuum birefringence, and modified electromagnetic interaction. Depending on how LIV is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-10 Tomislav Terzić

Expanding on our prior efforts to search for Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) using the linear optical polarimetry of extragalactic objects, we propose a new method that combines linear and circular polarization measurements. While…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-25 Roman Gerasimov , Praneet Bhoj , Fabian Kislat

In the last years a general consensus has emerged on the use of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) data as a powerful probe of the validity of special relativity. This applies in particular to the propagation of cosmic rays from their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-04 D. Boncioli , A. di Matteo , F. Salamida , R. Aloisio , P. Blasi , P. L. Ghia , A. F. Grillo , S. Petrera , T. Pierog

We consider the implications of Lorentz-invariance violation (LIV) on cosmogenic neutrino observations, with particular focus on the constraints imposed on several well-developed models for ultra-high energy cosmogenic neutrino production…

Lorentz invariance (LI) is a foundational principle of modern physics, yet its possible violation (LIV) remains an intriguing window to physics beyond the Standard Model. While stringent constraints exist in the electromagnetic and hadronic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-30 Z. Kepuladze , J. Jejelava

Very-high-energy (VHE; $E \gtrsim 100$ GeV) gamma rays are expected to experience strong attenuation during cosmological propagation due to electron-positron pair production on the extragalactic background light (EBL). Recent observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Longhua Qin , Jiancheng Wang , Chuyuan Yang , Huaizhen Li , Quangui Gao , Ju Ma , Ao Wang , Weiwei Na , Ming Zhou , Zunli Yuan , Chunxia Gu , Guangbo Long

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

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

New calculations for the kinematics of photon decay to fermions in vacuo under an isotropic violation of Lorentz invariance (LV), parameterized by the Standard-Model Extension (SME), are presented in this paper and used to interpret prompt…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-19 David Amram , Killian Bouzoud , Nicolas Chanon , Hubert Hansen , Marcos R. Ribeiro , Marco Schreck

Possible violations of Lorentz invariance (LIV) can produce vacuum birefringence, which results in a frequency-dependent rotation of the polarization plane of linearly polarized light from distant sources. In this paper, we try to search…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-11 Qi-Qi Zhou , Shuang-Xi Yi , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Some models for quantum gravity (QG) violate Lorentz invariance and predict an energy dependence of the speed of light, leading to a dispersion of high-energy gamma-ray signals that travel over cosmological distances. Limits on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-04-21 Robert Wagner

Cosmic opacity for very high-energy gamma rays ($E>10$ TeV) due to the interaction with the extragalactic background light can be strongly reduced because of possible Lorentz-violating terms in the particle dispersion relations expected,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-16 F. Tavecchio , G. Bonnoli

We consider here the possibility of quantum gravity induced violation of Lorentz symmetry (LV). Even if suppressed by the inverse Planck mass such LV can be tested by current experiments and astrophysical observations. We review the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ted Jacobson , Stefano Liberati , David Mattingly

Possible Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) has been investigated for a long time based on observations of GRBs . These arguments relied on the assumption that photons with different energy are emitted at the same place and time. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-07 Zhe Chang , Yunguo Jiang , Hai-Nan Lin

Possible violations of Lorentz invariance (LIV) have been investigated for a long time using the observed spectral lags of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). However, these generally have relied on using a single photon in the highest energy range.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Jun-Jie Wei , Bin-Bin Zhang , Lang Shao , Xue-Feng Wu , Peter Mészáros

Constraints on possible Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) to first order in $E/M_{\rm Planck}$ for photons in the framework of effective field theory (EFT) are discussed, taking cosmological factors into account. Then, using the reported…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Floyd W. Stecker

There are still some {significant and} unanswered questions about the {incredible} {very high energy (VHE)} $\gamma$-ray signatures. To help understand the mechanism, focusing on the linear and quadratic perturbation mode for the subluminal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-19 Y. G. Zheng , S. J. Kang , K. R. Zhu , C. Y. Yang , J. M. Bai