Resumen
Due to the high energies and long distances involved, astrophysical observations provide a unique opportunity to test possible signatures of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV). Superluminal LIV enables the decay of photons at high energy over relatively short distances, giving astrophysical spectra which have a hard cutoff above this energy. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is the most sensitive currently-operating gamma-ray observatory in the world above 10 TeV. Together with the recent development of an energy-reconstruction algorithm for HAWC using an artificial neural network, HAWC can make detailed measurements of gamma-ray energies above 100 TeV. With these observations, HAWC can limit the LIV energy scale greater than 1031 eV, over 800 times the Planck energy scale. This limit on LIV is over 60 times more constraining than the best previous value for ELIV(1).
Idioma original | English |
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Título de la publicación alojada | Constraints on Lorentz invariance violation using HAWC observations above 100 TeV |
Volumen | 358 |
Estado | Published - 2019 |
Publicado de forma externa | Sí |
Evento | 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2019 - Madison Duración: 24 jul 2019 → 1 ago 2019 |
Serie de la publicación
Nombre | Proceedings of Science |
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Editorial | Sissa Medialab Srl |
Conference
Conference | 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2019 |
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País/Territorio | United States |
Ciudad | Madison |
Período | 24/7/19 → 1/8/19 |
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General