Planck-scale Lorentz-symmetry test theories
| dc.creator | Amelino-Camelia, Giovanni | |
| dc.date | 2004-10-04 | |
| dc.date | 2004-12-29 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:14:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:14:52Z | |
| dc.description | In the recent quantum-gravity literature there has been strong interest in the possibility of Planck-scale departures from Lorentz symmetry, including possible modifications of the energy/momentum dispersion relation. I stress that a meaningful characterization of the progress of experimental bounds on these Planck-scale effects requires the analysis of some reference test theories, and I propose to focus on two ``minimal'' test theories, a pure-kinematics test theory and an effective-field-theory-based test theory. I illustrate some features of the phenomenology based on these test theories considering some popular strategies for constraining Planck-scale effects, and in particular I observe that sensitivities that are already in the Planck-scale range for some parameters of the two test theories can be achieved using observations of TeV photons from Blazars, both using the so-called ``gamma-ray time-of-flight analyses'' and using the now robust evidence of absorption of TeV photons. Instead the Crab-nebula synchrotron-radiation analyses, whose preliminary sensitivity estimates raised high hopes, actually do not lead to any bound on the parameters of the two ``minimal'' test theories. The Crab-nebula synchrotron-radiation analyses do however constrain some possible generalizations of one of the minimal test theories. As an example of forthcoming data which could provide extremely stringent (beyond-Planckian) limits on the two minimal test theories I consider the possibility of studies of the GZK cutoff for cosmic-rays. | |
| dc.description | shorter version to comply with page limits of proceedings volume (to appear in proceedings of Huntsville Workshop 2002) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410076 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410076 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/8299 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | Planck-scale Lorentz-symmetry test theories | |
| dc.type | text |