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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

Short-range experiments testing the gravitational inverse-square law at the submillimeter scale offer uniquely sensitive probes of Lorentz invariance. A combined analysis of results from the short-range gravity experiments HUST-2015,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-08 Cheng-Gang Shao , Yu-Jie Tan , Wen-Hai Tan , Shan-Qing Yang , Jun Luo , Michael Edmund Tobar , Quentin G. Bailey , J. C. Long , E. Weisman , Rui Xu , Alan Kostelecky

We analyze observational constraints from TeV astrophysics on Lorentz violating nonlinear dispersion for photons and electrons without assuming any a priori equality between the photon and electron parameters. The constraints arise from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ted Jacobson , Stefano Liberati , David Mattingly

Although Lorentz symmetry has been tested at low energy with extremely good accuracy, its validity at very high energy is much less well established. If Lorentz symmetry violation (LSV) is energy-dependent (e.g. $\propto E^2$), it can be of…

General Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Luis Gonzalez-Mestres

We consider the implications for laser interferometry of the quantum-gravity-motivated modifications in the laws of particle propagation, which are presently being considered in attempts to explain puzzling observations of ultra-high-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Claus Lammerzahl

Remnant low-energy effects of Planck-scale Lorentz breaking in candidate fundamental theories typically include modified one-particle dispersion relations. Theoretical constraints on such modifications are discussed leading to the exclusion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Ralf Lehnert

In this paper it is given a brief review of the current limits on the magnitude of CPT and Lorentz Invariance violations, currently predicted in connection with quantum gravity and string/M-theory, that can be derived from astrophysical and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-08 G. Auriemma

Atomic clock comparisons provide some of the most precise tests of Lorentz and CPT symmetries in the laboratory. With data from multiple such experiments using different nuclei, it is possible to constrain new regions of the parameter space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Brett Altschul

Using new theoretical tools, which allow to better understand ultra-high energy (UHE) dynamics, several patterns of Lorentz symmetry violation (LSV) are studied and compared with experiment. It is claimed that quadratically deformed…

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

Many quantum theories of gravity propose Lorentz violating dispersion relations of the form $\omega = |k|\, f(|k|/M)$, with recovery of approximate Lorentz invariance at energy scales much below $M$. We show that a quantum field with this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-17 Viqar Husain , Jorma Louko

We correct the fitting formula used in refs. [1,2] to obtain a robust limit on a violation of Lorentz invariance that depends linearly on the photon energy. The correction leads to a slight increase of the limit on the scale of the…

The most important problem of fundamental Physics is the quantization of the gravitational field. A main difficulty is the lack of available experimental tests that discriminate among the theories proposed to quantize gravity. Recently we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Jorge Alfaro

Various studies have already considered radiative corrections in Lorentz-violating models unveiling many instances where a minimal or nonminimal operator generates, via loop corrections, a contribution to the photon sector of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-03 A. F. Ferrari

Possible Lorentz-violating effects in the cosmic microwave background are studied. We provide a systematic classification of renormalizable and nonrenormalizable operators for Lorentz violation in electrodynamics and use polarimetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alan Kostelecky , Matthew Mewes

We employ techniques from quantum estimation theory (QET) to estimate the Lorentz violation parameters in the 1+3-dimensional flat spacetime. We obtain and discuss the expression of the quantum Fisher information (QFI) in terms of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-29 H. A. S. Costa , P. R. S. Carvalho , I. G. da Paz

The prospects are explored for testing Lorentz and CPT symmetry in the muon sector via the spectroscopy of muonium and various muonic atoms, and via measurements of the anomalous magnetic moments of the muon and antimuon. The effects of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Andre H. Gomes , Alan Kostelecky , Arnaldo J. Vargas

In this work, we compute some phenomenological bounds for the electromagnetic and massive gravitational high-derivative extensions supposing that it is possible to have an astrophysical process that generates simultaneously gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-30 E. Passos , M. A. Anacleto , F. A. Brito , O. Holanda , G. B. Souza , C. A. D. Zarro

If physics at the Planck scale requires new conceptions of space-time, then generic renormalizable field theories predict observable violations of Lorentz invariance in the low energy sector. The little recognized ``Lorentz Fine Tuning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 Pankaj Jain , John P. Ralston

All quantum gravity approaches lead to small modifications in the standard laws of physics which lead to violations of Lorentz invariance. One particular example is the extended standard model (SME). Here, a general phenomenological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Claus Laemmerzahl , Alfredo Macias , Holger Mueller

Generic violations of Lorentz symmetry can be described by an effective field theory framework that contains both general relativity and the standard model of particle physics called the Standard-Model Extension (SME). We obtain new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-21 Quentin G. Bailey , Ryan D. Everett , James M. Overduin