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A hypothetical violation of Lorentz invariance in the electrons' equation of motion (expressed within the Lorentz-violating extension of the standard model) leads to a change of the geometry of crystals and thus shifts the resonance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Holger Mueller , Sven Herrmann , Alejandro Saenz , Achim Peters , Claus Laemmerzahl

Familiar concepts in physics, such as Lorentz symmetry, are expected to be broken at energies approaching the Planck energy scale as predicted by several quantum-gravity theories. However, such very large energies are unreachable by current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-22 Hassan Abdalla , Garret Cotter , Michael Backes , Eli Kasai , Markus Böttcher

We consider a background of the violation of the Lorentz symmetry determined by the tensor $\left( K_{F}\right)_{\mu\nu\alpha\beta}$ which governs the Lorentz symmetry violation out of the Standard Model Extension, where this background…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-23 R. L. L. Vitória , H. Belich , K. Bakke

Lorentz invariance, the fundamental symmetry of Einstein's theory of Special Relativity, has been established and tested by many classical and modern experiments. However, many theories that unify the Standard Model of particle physics and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-15 Fabian Kislat , Henric Krawczynski

Lorentz and CPT invariance are among the symmetries that can be investigated with ultrahigh precision in subatomic physics. Being spacetime symmetries, Lorentz and CPT invariance can be violated by minuscule amounts in many theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-21 Ralf Lehnert

Much research has been done in the latter years on the subject of Lorentz violation induced by Quantum Gravity effects. On the theoretical side it has been shown that both Loop Quantum Gravity and String Theory predict that Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Vucetich

Lorentz invariance violation is a feature of several quantum gravity models in which Lorentz symmetry is broken at high energies, leading to potential changes in particle behavior and interactions. In this study, we investigate vacuum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-19 Andrey Saveliev , Rafael Alves Batista , Feodor Mishin

Lorentz invariance plays a fundamental role in modern physics. However, tiny violations of the Lorentz invariance may arise in some candidate quantum gravity theories. Prominent signatures of the gravitational Lorentz invariance violation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-12 Ziming Wang , Lijing Shao , Chang Liu

Lorentz symmetry is one of the cornerstones of modern physics. However, a number of theories aiming at unifying gravity with the other fundamental interactions including string field theory suggest violation of Lorentz symmetry [1-4]. While…

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

The violation of Lorentz symmetry can arise in a variety of approaches to fundamental physics. For the description of the associated low-energy effects, a dynamical framework known as the Standard-Model Extension has been developed. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralf Lehnert

A main difficulty in the quantization of the gravitational field is the lack of experiments that discriminate among the theories proposed to quantize gravity. Recently we showed that the Standard Model(SM) itself contains tiny Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jorge Alfaro

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

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

Astroparticle physics has recently reached a new status of precision due to the construction of new observatories, operating innovative technologies and the detection of large numbers of events and sources. The precise measurements of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-17 H. Martínez-Huerta

The behaviour of a relativistic scalar particle in a possible scenario that arises from the violation of the Lorentz symmetry is investigated. The background of the Lorentz symmetry violation is defined by a tensor field that governs the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-02 K. Bakke , H. Belich

This article concerns the fate of local Lorentz invariance in quantum gravity, particularly for approaches in which a discrete structure replaces continuum spacetime. Some features of standard quantum mechanics, presented in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Joe Henson

In this work, we use Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) introduced as a generic modification to particle dispersion relations to study some consequences of single photon emission, known as vacuum Cherenkov radiation, and photon decay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 H. Martínez-Huerta , A. Pérez-Lorenzana

We discuss the consequences of Lorentz violation (as expressed within the Lorentz-violating extension of the standard model) for the hydrogen molecule, which represents a generic model of a molecular binding. Lorentz-violating shifts of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Holger Mueller , Sven Herrmann , Alejandro Saenz , Achim Peters , Claus Laemmerzahl

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