Astrophysical Limits on Lorentz Violation for All Charged Species

dc.creatorAltschul, Brett
dc.date2006-10-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:06:00Z
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dc.descriptionIf Lorentz violation exists, it will affect the thresholds for pair creation processes. Lorentz-violating operators that change the maximum velocities of charged particles may increase or decrease the extinction rate of gamma-rays moving through space. If the emissions from high-energy astrophysical sources do not show any signs of anomalous absorption, this allows us to place bounds on the Lorentz-violating c coefficients for multiple species of charged particles. The bounds for a species of mass m_X based on observing photons at an energy E can be O(m_X^2/E^2), which corresponds to limits at the 10^(-15)(m_X^2/m_e^2) level for the most energetic photons.
dc.description11 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0610324
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0610324
dc.identifierAstropart.Phys.28:380-384,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2007.08.003
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/189381
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleAstrophysical Limits on Lorentz Violation for All Charged Species
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