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We search for Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) by re-analyzing the spectral lag data for GRB 190114C from Fermi-GBM using frequentist analysis, where we deal with the astrophysical nuisance parameters using profile likelihood. For this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-20 Vyaas Ramakrishnan , Shantanu Desai

Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) may be a good observational window on Quantum Gravity physics. Within last few years, all major Gamma-ray experiments have published results from the search for LIV with variable astrophysical sources:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-22 J. Bolmont , A. Jacholkowska

Charged particles scattering on moving inhomogenities of the magnetised interstellar medium can gain energy through the process of second-order Fermi acceleration. This energy gain depletes in turn the magnetic wave spectrum around the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 M. Kachelriess , J. Tjemsland

Context: Typical space plasmas contain spatially and temporally variable turbulent electromagnetic fields. Understanding the transport of energetic particles and the acceleration mechanisms for charged particles is an important goal of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-17 R. C. Tautz , I. Lerche , F. Kruse

We show that the current search for Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) in the summed energy spectra of electrons in $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay can be extended by investigating the single electron spectra and the angular correlation between the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-03 O. V. Nitescu , S. A. Ghinescu , M. Mirea , S. Stoica

Recent tentative experimental indications, and the subsequent theoretical speculations, regarding possible violations of Lorentz invariance have attracted a vast amount of attention. An important technical issue that considerably…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-29 Valentina Baccetti , Kyle Tate , Matt Visser

We consider the acceleration of charged particles near ultra-relativistic shocks, with Lorentz factor Gamma_s >> 1. We present simulations of the acceleration process and compare these with results from semi-analytical calculations. We show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Abraham Achterberg , Yves A. Gallant , John G. Kirk , Axel W. Guthmann

We analyse processes of electron acceleration in the Fermi Bubbles in order to define parameters and restrictions of the models, which are suggested for the origin of these giant radio and gamma-ray structures. In the case of leptonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 K. S. Cheng , D. O. Chernyshov , V. A. Dogiel , C. M. Ko

The discovery of the Fermi bubbles---a huge bilobular structure seen in GeV gamma-rays above and below the Galactic center---implies the presence of a large reservoir of high energy particles at $\sim 10 \, \text{kpc}$ from the disk. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Philipp Mertsch , Vahé Petrosian

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 Fermi function is historically derived from the Dirac equation or the Schr\"odinger equation. However, we claim that the Fermi function should be derived from quantum field theory. Then, we obtain the following results: (1) We give the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-25 Akihiro Matsuzaki , Hidekazu Tanaka

This work explores the possibility of resorting to neutrino phenomenology to detect evidence of new physics, caused by the residual signals of the supposed quantum structure of spacetime. In particular, this work investigates the effects on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-19 Marco Danilo Claudio Torri

First-order Fermi acceleration processes at ultrarelativistic shocks are studied with Monte Carlo simulations. The accelerated particle spectra are obtained by integrating the exact particle trajectories in a turbulent magnetic field near…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacek Niemiec

The search of violation of Lorentz symmetry, or Lorentz violation (LV), is an active research field. The effects of LV are expected to be very small and special systems are often used to search it. High-energy astrophysical neutrinos offer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-14 Carlos A. Argüelles , Teppei Katori

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

The first-order Fermi acceleration process at an ultra-relativistic shock wave is expected to create a particle spectrum with the unique asymptotic spectral index sigma_{gamma >> 1} approximately 2.2. Below, we discuss this result and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 M. Ostrowski , J. Bednarz

We investigate the relativistic dynamics of a spin half particle in the presence of a Lorentz-violating background within the framework of effective field theory. A modified Dirac Hamiltonian is considered, arising from a CPT odd coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 E. Maciel , M. A. Anacleto , K. E. L. Farias , E. Passos

The superluminal neutrinos detected by OPERA indicates Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) of the neutrino sector at the order of $10^{-5}$. We study the implications of the result in this work. We find that such a large LIV implied by OPERA…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin , Zhao-Huan Yu , Qiang Yuan

It is well known in the literature that vacuum fluctuations can induce a random motion of particles which is sometimes called quantum Brownian motion or quantum stochastic motion. In this paper, we consider Lorentz Invariance Violation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-11 M. A. Anacleto , C. H. G. Bessa , F. A. Brito , A. E. Mateus , E. Passos , J. R. L. Santos

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