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We give an overview of ongoing searches for effects motivated by the study of the quantum-gravity problem. We describe in greater detail approaches which have not been covered in recent ``Quantum Gravity Phenomenology'' reviews. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Amelino-Camelia , C. Lämmerzahl , A. Macias , H. Müller

High energy photons from astrophysical sources are unique probes for some predictions of candidate theories of Quantum Gravty (QG). In particular, imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) are instruments optimised for astronomical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-21 Tomislav Terzić , Daniel Kerszberg , Jelena Strišković

Cosmological gamma ray bursts are very likely powerful sources of high energy neutrinos and gravitational waves. The aim of this paper is to review and update the current predictions about the intensity of emission in this two forms to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giulio Auriemma

The recent observation of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos can be used to constrain violations of Lorentz invariance emerging from a quantum theory of gravity. We perform threshold and Cherenkov analyses that improve existing bounds by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Jorge S. Diaz , Alan Kostelecky , Matthew Mewes

Electromagnetic resonant cavities form the basis of many tests of Lorentz invariance involving photons. The effects of some forms of Lorentz violation scale with cavity size. We investigate possible signals of violations in the naturally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 Matthew Mewes

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

Quantum-gravity (QG) effects might generate Lorentz invariance violation by the interaction of energetic particles with the foamy structure of the space-time. As a consequence, particles may not travel at the universal speed of light. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Sovan Chakraborty , Alessandro Mirizzi , Günter Sigl

Despite the fact that quantum gravity theory still remains elusive, it is generally expected that it will bring the picture of a space-time foam at short distances leading to Lorenz Invariance Violation (LIV) manifested e.g. by energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marek Biesiada , Aleksandra Piórkowska

We show that estimates of the Lorentz symmetry violation extracted from ultra-high energy cosmic rays beyond the GZK cut-off set bounds on the parameters of a Lorentz-violating extension of the Standard Model. Moreover, we argue that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Bertolami

Recent observations of Ultra High Energy Cosmic rays suggest a small violation of Lorentz symmetry. Such a violation is expected in schemes with discrete/quantized spacetime. We examine this situation and suggest tests which could be…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B G Sidharth

Gamma ray burst (GRB) objects are now widely thought to be at cosmological distances, and thus represent enormous energy emission. Gamma ray spectra extending to $GeV$ energies suggest the possiblity of accompanying neutrino emission, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. J. Weiler , W. A. Simmons , S. Pakvasa , J. G. Learned

We study the prospects for using interferometers in gravitational-wave detectors as tools to search for photon-sector violations of Lorentz symmetry. Existing interferometers are shown to be exquisitely sensitive to tiny changes in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-15 Alan Kostelecky , Adrian C. Melissinos , Matthew Mewes

Precise tests of Lorentz invariance can be executed using neutrino oscillations, which can provide sensitive measurements of suppressed signals of new physics. This talk describes the neutrino sector of the Standard-Model Extension, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-30 Jorge S. Diaz

One of the primary goals of neutrino telescopes, such as IceCube, is the discovery of neutrinos emitted by gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Another source of interest in the results obtained by these telescopes is their possible use for tests of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-11 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Dafne Guetta , Tsvi Piran

Gravitational waves are excellent tools to probe the foundations of General Relativity in the strongly dynamical and non-linear regime. One such foundation is Lorentz symmetry, which can be broken in the gravitational sector by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Devin Hansen , Nicolas Yunes , Kent Yagi

Violations of Lorentz symmetry are typically associated with modifications of one-particle dispersion relations. The physical effects of such modifications in particle collisions often grow with energy, so that ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-25 Ralf Lehnert

Motivated by ideas from quantum gravity, Lorentz invariance has undergone many stringent tests over the past decade and passed every one. Since there is no conclusive reason from quantum gravity that the symmetry \textit{must} be violated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-13 David Mattingly

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

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-06 Andrey Saveliev , Rafael Alves Batista , Feodor Mishin

Lorentz invariant violation (LIV) test is very important to study in the new physics. All the known astrophysical constraints either have a very small examinable parameter space, or are only suitable for some special theoretical models.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-07 Cong-Xin Qiu , Zi-Gao Dai

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