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The observation of cosmic neutrinos up to 2 PeV is used to put bounds on the energy scale of Lorentz invariance violation through the loss of energy due to the production of $e^+e^-$ pairs in the propagation of superluminal neutrinos. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-02 J. M. Carmona , J. L. Cortes , J. J. Relancio , M. A. Reyes

Motivated by experimental indications of a significant presence of heavy nuclei in the cosmic ray flux at ultra high energies ($\gtrsim 10^{19} \eV$), we consider the effects of Planck scale suppressed Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-04 Andrey Saveliev , Luca Maccione , Guenter Sigl

The recently discovered Higgs particle with a mass near $126$ GeV presents new opportunities to explore Lorentz violation. Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are one of the most sensitive testing grounds for Lorentz symmetry, and can be used to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-14 Andrew Cohen , Gustavo Marques Tavares , Yiming Xu

We consider the radiation emitted by an ultrarelativistic charged particle moving in a magnetic field, in the presence of an additional Lorentz-violating interaction. In contrast with prior work, we treat a form of Lorentz violation that is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Altschul

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

Lorentz invariance is a cornerstone of modern physics, yet its possible violation remains both theoretically intriguing and experimentally significant. In this work, using quantum electrodynamics as an example, we explore how Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Zurab Kepuladze

Recently two collaborations, Tibet and HAWC, presented new measurements of gamma-ray spectrum from Crab Nebula \cite{Amenomori:2019rjd},\cite{Abeysekara:2019edl} which continues beyond $100$ TeV. We use these data to establish two-sided…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-26 Petr Satunin

In previous papers (e.g. physics/0003080 and references therein), it was pointed out that Lorentz symmetry violation (LSV) at Planck scale can play a crucial role in astrophysical processes at very high energy. It can potentially inhibit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Luis Gonzalez-Mestres

We set constraints on O(E/M) Lorentz Violation in QED in an effective field theory framework. A major consequence of such assumptions is the modification of the dispersion relations for electrons/positrons and photons, which in turn can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Luca Maccione , Stefano Liberati , Annalisa Celotti , John G. Kirk

The possibility that Pamir data at very high energy cannot be fully explained by standard physics has recently led to the suggestion that the peculiar jet structure observed above ~ 10E16 eV could be due to a suppression of effective space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-30 Luis Gonzalez-Mestres

We have recently proposed a Lorentz-violating energy-momentum relation entailing an exact momentum cutoff and studied various physical applications of that dispersion law. By a simple phenomenological approach we here study Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-06 Giovanni Salesi

Some extensions to the Standard Model lead to the introduction of Lorentz symmetry breaking terms, expected to induce deviations from Lorentz symmetry around the Planck scale. A parameterization of effects due to Lorentz invariance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Matthias Lorentz , Pierre Brun

We show that estimates of the Lorentz symmetry violation extracted from ultra-high energy cosmic rays beyond the GZK cut-off set bounds on the parameters of a Lorentz-violating extension of the Standard Model. Moreover, we argue that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Bertolami

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

In the presence of Lorentz violation, the motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field is distorted. By measuring the eccentricities of particles' elliptical orbits and studying how those eccentricities vary with the absolute…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-17 Brett Altschul

Extremely high-energy(EHE) cosmic rays might provide a chance to check a violation of the Lorentz symmetry of spacetime. Some theoretical consideration is described about why the Lorentz symmetry might break-down in EHE phenomena in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Humitaka Sato

Pions, like nucleons, are composed primarily of up and down quarks and gluons. Constraints on spin-independent Lorentz violation in the proton, neutron, and pion sectors translate into bounds on Lorentz violation for the fundamental fields.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Brett Altschul

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'

Spectropolarimetry of distant sources of electromagnetic radiation at wavelengths ranging from infrared to ultraviolet are used to constrain Lorentz violation. A bound of 3x10^{-32} is placed on coefficients for Lorentz violation.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Matthew Mewes

Lorentz violation has been a popular field in recent years in the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. We present a general method to build all Lorentz-violating terms in gauge field theories, including ones involving operators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-01 Zonghao Li