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The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory~(LHAASO) reported observation of photons with energies above 10~TeV from gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A. A suggestion was proposed that this result may contradict our knowledge of special…

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

Astrophysical scenarios provide a unique opportunity to test the possible signatures of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) due to the high energies and the very long distances they involve. An isotropic correction to the photon dispersion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 H. Martínez-Huerta

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 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 obtain modified dispersion relations by requiring the vanishing of determinant of inverse of modified photon propagators in Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) theory. Inspired by these dispersion relations, we give a more general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-18 Zhi Xiao , Bo-Qiang Ma

It has been long conjectured that a signature of Quantum Gravity will be Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) that could be observed at energies much lower than the Planck scale. One possible signature of LIV is an energy-dependent speed of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-29 Tsvi Piran , Dmitry D. Ofengeim

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

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

The strongest bounds on some forms of Lorentz and CPT violation come from astrophysical data, and placing such bounds may require understanding and modeling distant sources of radiation. However, it is also desirable to have bounds that do…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-10 Brett Altschul

The tiny modification of dispersion relation induced by Lorentz violation (LV) is an essential issue in quantum gravity (QG) theories, which can be magnified into significant effects when dealing with astrophysical observations at high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-01 Liang Chen , Zheng Xiong , Cong Li , SongZhan Chen , HuiHai He

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

Spacetime nonmetricity can be studied experimentally through its couplings to fermions and photons. We use recent high-precision searches for Lorentz violation to deduce first constraints involving the 40 independent nonmetricity components…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-24 Joshua Foster , Alan Kostelecky , Rui Xu

Experimental bounds on induced vacuum magnetic birefringence can be used to improve present photon-photon scattering limits in the electronvolt energy range. Measurements with the PVLAS apparatus (E. Zavattini {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. D…

Violations of Lorentz boost symmetry in the electron and photon sectors can be constrained by studying several different high-energy phenomenon. Although they may not lead to the strongest bounds numerically, measurements made in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-12 Brett Altschul

The recent detection of tera-electronvolt (TeV) photons from the record-breaking gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A during its prompt phase poses challenges for constraining its Lorentz factor. We re-evaluate the constraints on the jet Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-04 Duan-yuan Gao , Yuan-Chuan Zou

Expanding on our prior efforts to search for Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) using the linear optical polarimetry of extragalactic objects, we propose a new method that combines linear and circular polarization measurements. While…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-25 Roman Gerasimov , Praneet Bhoj , Fabian Kislat

Violations of both the weak equivalence principle (WEP) and Lorentz invariance can produce vacuum birefringence, which leads to an energy-dependent rotation of the polarization vector of linearly polarized emission from a given…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-23 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

The extragalactic background light (EBL) in the IR to UV bands partly absorbs very high energy (VHE, $E \geq$ 100GeV) $\gamma-$ray photons travelling over cosmological distances via pair production. In this paper, to get stronger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 Longhua Qin , Jiancheng Wang , Quangui Gao , Weiwei Na , Huaizhen Li , Ao Wang , Chuyuan Yang , Jianping Yang

Lorentz invariance is one of the basic ingredients of quantum field theories and violations of it are stringently constrained experimentally. Therefore, the possibility of Lorentz violation (LV) is usually realized at very high energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-17 Andreas Crivellin , Fiona Kirk , Marco Schreck

We use the spectral lag data of 32 long GRBs detected by Fermi/GBM, which has been recently collated in Liu et al (2022) to quantify the statistical significance of a transition in the spectral lag data based on Lorentz invariance violation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-18 Vibhavasu Pasumarti , Shantanu Desai