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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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Yu Pan , Jingzhao Qi , Shuo Cao , Tonghua Liu , Yuting Liu , Shuaibo Geng , Yujie Lian , Zong-Hong Zhu

Lorentz invariance violation (LV) is examined through the time delay between high-energy and low-energy photons in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Previous studies determined the LV energy scale as $E_{\rm LV} \simeq 3.60 \times 10^{17}$~GeV using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-02 Hanlin Song , Bo-Qiang Ma

The constancy of light speed is a basic assumption in Einstein's special relativity, and consequently the Lorentz invariance is a fundamental symmetry of space-time in modern physics. However, it is speculated that the speed of light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-23 Shu Zhang , Bo-Qiang Ma

Lorentz-invariance violation (LV) at energy scales approaching the Planck regime serves as a critical probe for understanding quantum gravity phenomenology. Astrophysical observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) present a promising avenue…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-12 Hanlin Song , Bo-Qiang Ma

Lorentz violation (LV) is predicted by some quantum gravity theories, where photon dispersion relation is modified, and the speed of light becomes energy-dependent. Consequently, it results in a tiny time delay between high energy photons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 Lijing Shao , Zhi Xiao , Bo-Qiang Ma

A number of works have claimed detections of a turn-over in the spectral lag data for individual Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), caused by an energy-dependent speed of light, which could be a possible manifestation of Lorentz invariance violation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-13 Rajdeep Agrawal , Haveesh Singirikonda , Shantanu Desai

Lorentz invariance violation in photons can be quantified by measuring the difference in arrival times between high- and low-energy photons originating from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). When analyzing data, it is crucial to consider the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-22 Hanlin Song , Bo-Qiang Ma

Previous researches on high-energy photon events from gamma-ray bursts~(GRBs) suggest a light speed variation $v(E)=c(1-E/E_{\mathrm{LV}})$ with $E_{\mathrm{LV}}=3.6\times10^{17}~\mathrm{ GeV}$, together with a pre-burst scenario that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-13 Jie Zhu , Bo-Qiang Ma

In quantum theory of gravity, we expect the Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) and the modification of the dispersion relation between energy and momentum for photons. The effect of the energy-dependent velocity due to the modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-24 Yu Pan , Yungui Gong , Shuo Cao , He Gao , Zong-Hong Zhu

The effect of quantum gravity can bring a tiny light speed variation which is detectable through energetic photons propagating from gamma ray bursts (GRBs) to an observer such as the space observatory. Through an analysis of the energetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-07 Haowei Xu , Bo-Qiang Ma

Due to their cosmological distances high-energy astrophysical sources allow for unprecedented tests of fundamental physics. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) comprise among the most sensitive laboratories for exploring the violation of the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-19 Valeri Vardanyan , Volodymyr Takhistov , Metin Ata , Kohta Murase

Models of quantum gravity suggest that the vacuum should be regarded as a medium with quantum structure that may have non-trivial effects on photon propagation, including the violation of Lorentz invariance. Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-24 John Ellis , Rostislav Konoplich , Nikolaos E. Mavromatos , Linh Nguyen , Alexander S. Sakharov , Edward K. Sarkisyan-Grinbaum

The observed spectral lags of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been widely used to explore possible violations of Lorentz invariance. However, these studies were generally performed by concentrating on the rough time lag of a single…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-11 Jin-Nan Wei , Zi-Ke Liu , Jun-Jie Wei , Bin-Bin Zhang , Xue-Feng Wu

High-energy astrophysics observations provide the best possibilities to detect a very small violation of Lorentz invariance, such as may be related to the structure of space-time near the Planck scale. I discuss the possible signatures of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 Floyd W. Stecker

The Hubble tension in cosmology is not showing signs of alleviation and thus, it is important to look for alternative approaches to it. One such example would be the eventual detection of a time delay between simultaneously emitted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-14 Denitsa Staicova

Experimental observations indicate that gamma-ray bursts (GRB) and high-energy neutrino bursts may travel at different speeds with a typical delay measured at the order of hours or days. We discuss two potential interpretations for the GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-15 Masud Chaichian , Iver Brevik , Markku Oksanen

Working in the context of a Lorentz-violating extension of the standard model we show that estimates of Lorentz symmetry violation extracted from ultra-high energy cosmic rays beyond the Greisen-Kuzmin-Zatsepin (GZK) cutoff allow for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Bertolami , C. S. Carvalho

We analyze the MeV/GeV emission from four bright Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) observed by the Fermi-Large Area Telescope to produce robust, stringent constraints on a dependence of the speed of light in vacuo on the photon energy (vacuum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-06 V. Vasileiou , A. Jacholkowska , F. Piron , J. Bolmont , C. Couturier , J. Granot , F. W. Stecker , J. Cohen-Tanugi , F. Longo

Possible Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) has been investigated for a long time based on observations of GRBs . These arguments relied on the assumption that photons with different energy are emitted at the same place and time. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-07 Zhe Chang , Yunguo Jiang , Hai-Nan Lin

Possible violations of Lorentz invariance (LIV) have been investigated for a long time using the observed spectral lags of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). However, these generally have relied on using a single photon in the highest energy range.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Jun-Jie Wei , Bin-Bin Zhang , Lang Shao , Xue-Feng Wu , Peter Mészáros
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