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In the present study, we analyze in combination the principles of special relativity and the phenomenon of the aberration of light, deriving a system of equations that allows establishing the relationship between the angles commonly…

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Astrophysical observations provide a unique opportunity to test possible signatures of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV), due to the high energies and long distances involved. In quantum theory of gravity, one may expect the modification…

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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…

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In a model with Lorentz invariance violation implemented through modified dispersion relations, we estimate the rate for the decay process gamma -> 3 gamma and find that it provides a relevant bound on Lorentz invariance violation.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Graciela Gelmini , Shmuel Nussinov , Carlos E. Yaguna

We introduce a new version of non-linear electrodynamics which is produced by a spontaneous symmetry breaking of Lorentz invariance induced by the non-zero expectation value of the electromagnetic field strength. The symmetry breaking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Jorge Alfaro , Luis F. Urrutia

Without breaking Lorentz invariance, we investigate the speed of graviton in event GW150914 by using the modified dispersion relation from gravity's rainbow. The proper range of the parameter in the modified dispersion relation is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 Bogeun Gwak , Wontae Kim , Bum-Hoon Lee

The root of the divergence problem in the current quantum field theory seems to be in the special theory of relativity. Here we propose a modified special relativity theory by introducing the primed inertial coordinate system, in addition…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Miin Liu

Lorentz invariance violation~(LIV) can change the threshold behavior predicted by special relativity and cause threshold anomalies which affect the propagation of cosmic photons. In this work, we focus on the threshold anomaly effect on…

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We show that the running of gravitational couplings, together with a suitable identification of the renormalization group scale can give rise to modified dispersion relations for massive particles. This result seems to be compatible with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Girelli , S. Liberati , R. Percacci , C. Rahmede

Lorentz-violating neutrino parameters have been severely constrained on the basis of astrophysical considerations. In the high-energy limit, one generally assumes a superluminal dispersion relation of an incoming neutrino of the form E ~…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-13 G. Somogyi , I. Nandori , U. D. Jentschura

Lorentz symmetry is a cornerstone of modern physics, and testing its validity remains a critical endeavor. In this work, we analyze the photon time-of-flight and time-shift data from LHAASO observations of Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 221009A to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-04 Yu Xi , Fu-Wen Shu

We revisit one of the earliest proposals for deformed dispersion relations in the light of recent results on dynamical dimensional reduction and production of cosmological fluctuations. Depending on the specification of the measure of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-25 Giulia Gubitosi , Joao Magueijo

Lorentz violation at high energies might lead to non linear dispersion relations for the fundamental particles. We analyze observational constraints on these without assuming any a priori equality between the coefficients determining the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 S. Liberati , T. A. Jacobson , D. Mattingly

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 place several new limits on Lorentz violating effects, which can modify particles' dispersion relations, by considering the highest energy cosmic rays observed. Since these are hadrons, this involves considering the partonic content of…

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We investigate the effects of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) on photon interactions, considering both intergalactic propagation (Breit-Wheeler process) and atmospheric interactions (Bethe-Heitler process). By incorporating LIV into the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Denise Boncioli , Valdir Barbosa Bezerra , Matteo Giammarco , Iarley Pereira Lobo , Pedro Morais , Francesco Salamida

Using a form of modified dispersion relations derived in the context of quantum geometry, we investigate limits set by current observations on potential corrections to Lorentz invariance. We use a phenomological model in which there are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomasz J. Konopka , Seth A. Major

It is proved that local Lorentz transformations for different systems cannot derive varying speed of light. Based on the special relativity principle, an invariant speed is necessarily obtained. Therefore, the exact basic principles of the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-06-12 Yi-Fang Chang

In this thesis, we investigate the implications of Lorentz-violating (LV) theories, focusing on Very Special Relativity (VSR) and its phenomenological consequences. Initially presented as an alternative mechanism for neutrino masses, VSR…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-30 Alessandro Santoni

We analyze the kinematics of electron-positron production in a photon-photon interaction when one has a modification of the special relativistic kinematics as a power expansion in the inverse of a new high-energy scale. We derive the…

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