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We reanalyze the spectral lag data for GRB 160625B using frequentist inference in order to constrain the energy scale ($E_{QG}$) of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV). For this purpose, we use profile likelihood to deal with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 Shantanu Desai , Shalini Ganguly

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

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

The spectral lags of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been viewed as the most promising probes of the possible violations of Lorentz invariance (LIV). However, these constraints usually depend on the assumption of the unknown intrinsic time lag…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Shen-Shi Du , Lin Lan , Jun-Jie Wei , Zi-Ming Zhou , He Gao , Lu-Yao Jiang , Bin-Bin Zhang , Zi-Ke Liu , Xue-Feng Wu , En-Wei Liang , Zong-Hong Zhu

Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) can manifest itself by an energy-dependent vacuum dispersion of light, which leads to arrival-time differences of photons with different energies originating from the same astronomical source. The spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

The positive-to-negative transition of spectral lag is an uncommon feature reported in a small number of GRBs. An application of such a feature has been made to constrain the critical quantum gravity energy ($E_{\rm QG}$) of the light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-30 Zi-Ke Liu , Bin-Bin Zhang , Yan-Zhi Meng

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

In the gravity quantum theory, the quantization of spacetime may lead to the modification of the dispersion relation between the energy and the momentum and the Lorentz invariance violation (LIV). High energy and long-distance gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Mingyue Chen , Jun Tian , Yu Pan , Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao

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

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

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

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

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

Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) arises in various quantum-gravity theories. As the typical energy for quantum gravity is the Planck mass, $M_{pl}$, LIV will, most likely, be manifested at very high energies that are not accessible on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Uri Jacob , Tsvi Piran

Some Quantum Gravity (QG) theories allow for a violation of Lorentz invariance (LIV), manifesting as a dependence of the velocity of light in vacuum on its energy. If such a dependence exists, then photons of different energies emitted…

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

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

Searching for Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) using astrophysical sources such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is crucial for probing quantum gravity. However, the dependence of LIV constraints on assumed cosmological models has been largely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-01 Jun Tian , Yu Pan , Shuo Cao , Qing-Quan Jiang , Wei-Liang Qian

We constrain the possibility of a non-trivial refractive index in free space corresponding to an energy-dependent velocity of light: c(E) \simeq c_0 (1 - E/M), where M is a mass scale that might represent effect of quantum-gravitational…

We use the spectral lag catalog of 46 short GRBs aggregated by Xiao et al (2022), to carry out an independent search for Lorentz Invariance violation (LIV). For this purpose, we use a power-law model as a function of energy for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-24 Shantanu Desai , Rajdeep Agrawal , Haveesh Singirikonda
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