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Context: The extreme luminosity of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) makes them powerful beacons for studies of the distant Universe. The most luminous bursts are typically detected at moderate/high redshift, where the volume for seeing such rare…

Various approaches to quantum gravity suggest the possibility of violation of Lorentz symmetry at very high energies. In these cases we expect a modification at low energies of the dispersion relation of photons that contains extra powers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Maria Rodriguez Martinez , Tsvi Piran , Yonatan Oren

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most potent probes of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV), offering direct constraints on the quantum gravity energy scale ($E_{\rm QG}$) based on observations of energy-dependent time lags. Individual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 Shen-Shi Du , Yi Gong , Jun-Jie Wei , Zi-Ke Liu , Zhi-Qiang You , Yan-Zhi Meng , Xing-Jiang Zhu

Time-of-flight measurements of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos can be used to probe Lorentz invariance, a pillar of modern physics. If Lorentz-invariance violation (LIV) occurs, it could cause neutrinos to slow down, with the delay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-01 Mauricio Bustamante , John Ellis , Rostislav Konoplich , Alexander S. Sakharov

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

In this paper, Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) is introduced in the calculations of photon propagation in the Universe. LIV is considered in the photon sector and the mean free path of the $\gamma \gamma \rightarrow e^{+} e^{-}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-19 Rodrigo Guedes Lang , Humberto Martínez-Huerta , Vitor de Souza

Lorentz invariance violations (LIV) can yield vacuum birefringence, which results in an energy-dependent rotation of the polarization vector of linearly polarized emission from astrophysical sources. It is believed that if the relative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-10 Jun-Jie Wei

The Lorentz violation~(LV) effect of ultra-relativistic particles can be tested by gamma-ray burst~(GRB) neutrinos and photons. The IceCube Collaboration has observed plenty of ultra-high energy neutrinos, including four events of PeV scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-04 Yanqi Huang , Bo-Qiang Ma

The high frequency peaked BL Lac object PG 1553+113 underwent a flaring event in 2012. The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) observed this source for two consecutive nights at very high energies (VHE, $E>$100~GeV). The data show an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 D. A. Sanchez , F. Brun , C Couturier , A Jacholkowska , J. -P. Lenain

Observations of the multi-TeV spectra of the nearby BL objects Mkn 421 and Mkn 501 exhibit the high energy cutoffs predicted to be the result of intergalactic annihilation interactions, primarily with infrared photons having a flux level as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 F. W. Stecker

We propose a novel explanation for the 18 TeV gamma ray from GRB 221009A observed by LHAASO. High-energy neutrinos are converted into axion-like particles (ALPs) via their interaction with the cosmic neutrino background. Subsequently, ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-21 Nicolás Bernal , Yasaman Farzan , Alexei Yu. Smirnov

A gamma-ray burst, named GRB 221009A, occurred on 9 October 2022 and is the brightest ever observed GRB, whose frequency is now estimated as once in 10,000 years. This GRB was reported to be observed from many space missions, VLF receivers,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-18 Pranali Thakur , Gauri Datar , Geeta Vichare , Selvaraj Chelliah

We discuss the effect of hypothetical violation of Lorentz invariance at high energies on the formation of atmospheric showers by very-high-energy gamma rays. In the scenario where Lorentz invariance violation leads to a decrease of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 Grigory Rubtsov , Petr Satunin , Sergey Sibiryakov

The delay in the arrival times between high and low energy photons from cosmic sources can be used to test the violation of the Lorentz invariance (LIV), predicted by some quantum gravity theories, and to constrain its characteristic energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 M. G. Bernardini , G. Ghirlanda , S. Campana , P. D'Avanzo , J. -L. Atteia , S. Covino , G. Ghisellini , A. Melandri , F. Piron , R. Salvaterra , G. Tagliaferri

Lorentz invariance (LI) has a central role in science and its violation (LIV) at some high-energy scale has been related to possible solutions for several of the most intriguing puzzles in nature such as dark matter, dark energy, cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-25 Rodrigo Guedes Lang , Humberto Martínez-Huerta , Vitor de Souza

Very high-energy astrophysical gamma rays suffer a suppression of their flux along their propagation due to their interaction, through the $\gamma\gamma\to e^+e^-$ pair-production process, with the soft photon backgrounds present in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-03 J. M. Carmona , J. L. Cortés , F. Rescic , M. A. Reyes , T. Terzić , F. I. Vrban

The detection of $\gamma$-ray candidates up to the energy of $\approx$13 TeV from the exceptionally bright $\gamma$-ray burst GRB 221009A by the Large High Altitude Air-Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has raised considerable interest in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 Timur A. Dzhatdoev , Jagdish C. Joshi , Abhijit Roy , Grigory I. Rubtsov , Anatoly A. Semenov

In quantum gravity, a foamy structure of space-time leads to Lorentz invariance violation (LIV). As the most energetic astrophysical processes in the Universe, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provide an effective way to probe quantum gravity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-22 Zhe Chang , Xin Li , Hai-Nan Lin , Yu Sang , Ping Wang , Sai Wang

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S) Collaboration reported the discovery of a novel radiation component from the Vela pulsar by their Cherenkov telescopes. It is of great importance that gamma rays with energies of at least 20~TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-23 Hao Li , Jie Zhu , Bo-Qiang Ma

The recently observed very high energy (VHE) photons dubbed as GRB221009A by several terrestrial observatories such as LHAASO and Carpet-2 require a physics explanation beyond the standard model. Such energetic gamma ray bursts, originating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-27 M. Afif Ismail , Chrisna Setyo Nugroho , Qidir Maulana Binu Soesanto