Limits on Lorentz Violation from Synchrotron and Inverse Compton Sources
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We derive new bounds on Lorentz violations in the electron sector from existing data on high-energy astrophysical sources. Synchrotron and inverse Compton data give precisely complementary constraints. The best bound on a specific combination of electron Lorentz-violating coefficients is at the 6 x 10^(-20) level, and independent bounds are available for all the Lorentz-violating c coefficients at the 2 x 10^(-14) level or better. This represents an improvement in some bounds by fourteen orders of magnitude.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0603138,
title = {Limits on Lorentz Violation from Synchrotron and Inverse Compton Sources},
author = {B. Altschul},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0603138},
year = {2008}
}
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9 pages