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TeV astrophysics constraints on Planck scale Lorentz violation

Ted Jacobson, Stefano Liberati, and David Mattingly
Phys. Rev. D 66, 081302(R) – Published 29 October 2002
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Abstract

We analyze observational constraints from TeV astrophysics on Lorentz violating nonlinear dispersion for photons and electrons without assuming any a priori equality between the photon and electron parameters. The constraints arise from thresholds for vacuum Čerenkov radiation, photon decay and photo-production of electron-positron pairs. We show that the parameter plane for cubic momentum terms in the dispersion relations is constrained to an order unity region in Planck units. We find that the threshold configuration can occur with an asymmetric distribution of momentum for pair creation, and with a hard photon for vacuum Čerenkov radiation.

  • Received 21 December 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.66.081302

©2002 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Ted Jacobson*, Stefano Liberati, and David Mattingly

  • Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742–4111

  • *Electronic address: jacobson@physics.umd.edu
  • Electronic address: liberati@physics.umd.edu
  • Electronic address: davemm@physics.umd.edu

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Vol. 66, Iss. 8 — 15 October 2002

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