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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…

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We use the recent reanalysis of multi-TeV gamma-ray observations of Mrk 501 to constrain the Lorentz invariance breaking parameter involving the maximum electron velocity. Our limit is two orders of magnitude better than that obtained from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-09 F. W. Stecker , Sheldon L. Glashow

Lorentz Violation (LV) is posited as a possible relic effect of quantum gravity at low energy scales. The Standard-Model Extension provides an effective field-theoretic framework for examining possible deviations attributed to LV. With…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-12 Yiming Dong , Ziming Wang , Lijing Shao

An overview of recent progress on testing Lorentz and CPT symmetry using Penning traps is presented. The theory of quantum electrodynamics with Lorentz-violating operators of mass dimensions up to six is summarized. Dominant shifts in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-17 Yunhua Ding , Teague D. Olewiler , Mohammad Farhan Rawnak

This talk at the CPT'25 meeting presents an overview of some recent results in Lorentz and CPT violation. Topics covered include the geometry of Finsler spaces associated with Lorentz violation, the resolution of the concordance problem in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-01 Alan Kostelecky

Some solutions to the anomalies of ultra high energy cosmic-ray(UHECR) and TeV $\gamma$-rays require disturbed non-quadratic dispersion relations, which suggest the Lorentz violation. Also, some new theories such as quantum gravity, string…

General Physics · Physics 2007-08-14 Ying-Qiu Gu

This paper explores the annihilation process of an electron-positron pair into a heavier lepton-antilepton pair, taking into account the presence of an external classical magnetic field. Additionally, it investigates corrections arising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-02 D. S. Cabral , A. F. Santos

Lorentz symmetry violation (LSV) can be generated at the Planck scale, or at some other fundamental length scale, and naturally preserve Lorentz symmetry as a low-energy limit (deformed Lorentz symmetry, DLS). DLS can have important…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Luis Gonzalez-Mestres

Effective field theories (EFT) are strongly constrained by fundamental principles such as unitarity, locality, causality, and Lorentz invariance. In this paper, we consider the EFT of photons (or other $U(1)$ gauge field) and compare…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Mariana Carrillo González , Claudia de Rham , Sumer Jaitly , Victor Pozsgay , Anna Tokareva

Atomic physics can probe the Lorentz and CPT symmetries at the Planck level. Bounds on coefficients for Lorentz violation have been found using atomic clocks, masers, electromagnetic cavities, and Penning traps, among others, and in future…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Neil Russell

We determine the effect of a CPT-even and Lorentz violating non-minimal coupling on the differential cross sections for some of the most important tree-level processes in QED, namely, Compton and Bhabha scatterings, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-19 G. P. de Brito , J. T. Guaitolini Junior , D. Kroff , P. C. Malta , C. Marques

Local Lorentz Invariance violating (LLIV) and Einstein equivalence principle violating (EEPV) effects in atomic experiments are discussed. The EEPV effects are strongly enhanced in the narrow 7.8 eV transition in 229Th nucleus. Nuclear LLIV…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 V. V. Flambaum

The theoretical prospects for quantum electrodynamics with Lorentz-violating operators of mass dimensions up to six are revisited in this work. The dominant effects due to Lorentz and CPT violation are studied in measurements of magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Yunhua Ding

The relation between the violation of Lorentz invariance and the dynamical effects in high energy gamma rays production is discussed. By using the framework of noncommutative classical electrodynamics, it is shown that full dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Castorina , A. Iorio , D. Zappala'

Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) is a phenomenon featuring in various quantum gravity models whereby Lorentz symmetry is broken at high energies, potentially impacting the behaviour of particles and their interactions. Here we investigate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-30 Andrey Saveliev , Rafael Alves Batista

If there is Lorentz symmetry violation in the $t$ quark sector of the standard model, changes to particles' dispersion relations might allow for the existence of stable top-flavored hadrons. Observations of the survival of high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-14 Brett Altschul

Multi-TeV spectra of Mkn 501 and other BL Lac objects exhibit the high energy cutoffs predicted to be the result of intergalactic annihilation interactions, primarily with IR photons having the flux level determined by various astrophysical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. W. Stecker

The experimental detection of the effects of noncommuting coordinates in electrodynamic phenomena depends on the magnitude of |\theta B|, where \theta is the noncommutativity parameter and B a background magnetic field. With the present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-08 P. Castorina , A. Iorio , D. Zappalá

Theory of Supersymmetric Quantum Electrodynamics is extended by interactions with external vector and tensor backgrounds, that are assumed to be generated by some Lorentz-violating (LV) dynamics at an ultraviolet scale perhaps related to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-11 Pavel A. Bolokhov , Stefan Groot Nibbelink , Maxim Pospelov

We reconsider Lorentz Violation (LV) at the fundamental level. We show that Lorentz Violation is intimately connected with gravity and that LV couplings in QFT must always be fields in a gravitational sector. Diffeomorphism invariance must…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Elias Kiritsis