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Cosmic rays have extremely high particle energies (up to $10^{20} \; \text{eV}$) and can be used to search for violations of Lorentz invariance. We consider isotropic nonbirefringent Lorentz violation in the photon sector for the case of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-20 F. R. Klinkhamer , M. Niechciol , M. Risse

The spectral lags of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been viewed as the most promising probes of the possible violations of Lorentz invariance (LIV). However, these constraints usually depend on the assumption of the unknown intrinsic time lag…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Shen-Shi Du , Lin Lan , Jun-Jie Wei , Zi-Ming Zhou , He Gao , Lu-Yao Jiang , Bin-Bin Zhang , Zi-Ke Liu , Xue-Feng Wu , En-Wei Liang , Zong-Hong Zhu

Lorentz invariance is a fundamental symmetry of both Einstein's theory of general relativity and quantum field theory. However, deviations from Lorentz invariance at energies approaching the Planck scale are predicted in many quantum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) can have multiple consequences on very-high energy gamma rays' emission, propagation, and detection, such as energy-dependent photon group velocity, photon instability, vacuum birefringence, and modified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Tomislav Terzić , Karlo Mrakovčić

We investigate the impact of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) on radiation processes in astrophysical sources, focusing on synchrotron and inverse Compton interactions. We derive modified expressions for radiated power and photon energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-23 Matheus Duarte , Vitor de Souza

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

Present and future ultra-high-energy-cosmic-ray facilities (e.g., the Pierre Auger Observatory with South and North components) and TeV-gamma-ray telescope arrays (e.g., HESS or VERITAS and CTA) have the potential to set stringent indirect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-30 F. R. Klinkhamer

In some quantum gravity (QG) theories, Lorentz symmetry may be broken above the Planck scale. The Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) may induce observable effects at low energies and be detected at high energy astrophysical measurements.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-03 Yu-Ming Yang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

We correct the fitting formula used in refs. [1,2] to obtain a robust limit on a violation of Lorentz invariance that depends linearly on the photon energy. The correction leads to a slight increase of the limit on the scale of the…

There has been much interest in possible violations of Lorentz invariance, particularly motivated by quantum gravity theories. It has been suggested that a small amount of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) could turn off photomeson…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 S. T. Scully , F. W. Stecker

Tiny Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) effects, potentially arising from quantum gravity-induced spacetime structures, may also manifest in the proton sector, offering a plausible pathway to test Planck-scale physics through high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-27 Guo-Li Liu , Xinbo Su , Fei Wang

In this work, we compute some phenomenological bounds for the electromagnetic and massive gravitational high-derivative extensions supposing that it is possible to have an astrophysical process that generates simultaneously gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-30 E. Passos , M. A. Anacleto , F. A. Brito , O. Holanda , G. B. Souza , C. A. D. Zarro

From special relativity, photon annihilation process \HepProcess{{\Pgg}{\Pgg}{\to}{\Pep}{\Pem}} prevents cosmic photons with energies above a threshold to propagate a long distance in cosmic space due to their annihilation with low energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 Hao Li , Bo-Qiang Ma

Gravitational lensing of very high energy photons has recently been observed in the JVAS B0218+357 strong lensing system. This observation opens the possibility of performing a test of gravity at high energy by comparing the difference in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-11 J-F. Glicenstein

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is an array of large water Cherenkov detectors sensitive to gamma rays and hadronic cosmic rays in the energy band between 100 GeV and 100 TeV. The observatory will be used to measure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-11 A. U. Abeysekara , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , J. D. Álvarez , R. Arceo , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , H. A. Ayala Solares , A. S. Barber , B. M. Baughman , N. Bautista-Elivar , E. Belmont , S. Y. BenZvi , D. Berley , M. Bonilla Rosales , J. Braun , R. A. Caballero-Lopez , A. Carramiñana , M. Castillo , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , E. de la Fuente , C. De León , T. DeYoung , R. Diaz Hernandez , J. C. Diaz-Velez , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , R. W. Ellsworth , A. Fernandez , D. W. Fiorino , N. Fraija , A. Galindo , J. L. Garcia-Luna , G. Garcia-Torales , F. Garfias , L. X. González , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , V. Grabski , M. Gussert , Z. Hampel-Arias , C. M. Hui , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Imran , A. Iriarte , P. Karn , D. Kieda , G. J. Kunde , A. Lara , R. J. Lauer , W. H. Lee , D. Lennarz , H. León Vargas , E. C. Linares , J. T. Linnemann , M. Longo , R. Luna-García , A. Marinelli , O. Martinez , J. Martínez-Castro , J. A. J. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , J. Nava , L. Nellen , M. Newbold , R. Noriega-Papaqui , T. Oceguera-Becerra , B. Patricelli , R. Pelayo , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , J. Pretz , C. Rivière , D. Rosa-González , H. Salazar , F. Salesa , A. Sandoval , E. Santos , M. Schneider , S. Silich , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , K. Sparks , R. W. Springer , I. Taboada , P. A. Toale , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , T. N. Ukwatta , L. Villaseñor , T. Weisgarber , S. Westerhoff , I. G. Wisher , J. Wood , G. B. Yodh , P. W. Younk , D. Zaborov , A. Zepeda , H. Zhou

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes study the highest energy (up to tens of TeV) photon emission coming from nearby and distant astrophysical sources, thus providing valuable results from searches for Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV)…

Motivated by experimental indications of a significant presence of heavy nuclei in the cosmic ray flux at ultra high energies ($\gtrsim 10^{19} \eV$), we consider the effects of Planck scale suppressed Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-04 Andrey Saveliev , Luca Maccione , Guenter Sigl

Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) has long been recognized as an observable low-energy signature of quantum gravity. In spite of a great effort to detect LIV effects, so far only lower bounds have been derived. The high energy photons from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-04 Giorgio Galanti , Marco Roncadelli

The Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) predicted by some quantum gravity theories would manifest as an energy-dependent speed of light, which may potentially distort the observed temporal profile of photons from astrophysical sources at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-10 Yu-Chen Hua , Xiao-Jun Bi , Yu-Ming Yang , Peng-Fei Yin

Testing Lorentz invariance is essential as it is one of the pillars of modern physics. Moreover, its violation is foreseen in several popular Quantum Gravity models. Several authors study the effects of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Rodrigo Guedes Lang , Vitor de Souza