Is the Universe transparent to TeV photons?
| dc.creator | Kluzniak, W. | |
| dc.date | 1999-05-26 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:31:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:31:41Z | |
| dc.description | If Lorentz invariance is broken at an energy scale Eq, as has recently been suggested in the context of attempts to quantize gravity, the kinematics of photon-photon collisions would be profoundly affected at lower energies. Specifically, electron-positron pair creation on soft photons may be forbidden at photon energies as low as 30 TeV times square root of (Eq/10**17 GeV) and the Universe would then be transparent to high energy photons. The proposition that Lorentz invariance is broken may be falsified by the techniques of TeV astronomy. | |
| dc.description | To appear in 8th Internatinal Workshop on "Neutrino Telescopes", Milla Baldo Ceolin ed., held February 23-26, 1999, in Venice. 4 pgs | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9905308 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9905308 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/14244 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Is the Universe transparent to TeV photons? | |
| dc.type | text |