Potential constrains on Lorentz invariance violation from the HAWC TeV gamma-rays
- HAWC Collaboration,
- H. Martínez-Huerta(Author)
- Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
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Abstract
Astrophysical scenarios provide a unique opportunity to test the possible signatures of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) due to the high energies and the very long distances they involve. An isotropic correction to the photon dispersion relation, by hypothetical Lorentz invariance violation, has a consequence that photons of sufficient energy are unstable and decay very fast. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is sensitive to gamma-rays in the 100 GeV to 100 TeV energy range, making it a very useful tool to study LIV. In this work we present potential stringent limits for the LIV energy scale at first and second order correction by the potential observations of primary very high energy photons in HAWC energy range.
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Research Output: Contribution to conference Paper Peer-review
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EnglishPublication milestones
- Published - 2017
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Published - 2017
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- Scopus: 85062331241
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35th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2017
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10/07/2017 - 20/07/2017Location
Bexco, BusanKorea, Republic of
Funding Details
We acknowledge the support from: the US National Science Foundation (NSF); the US Department of Energy Office of High-Energy Physics; the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program of Los Alamos National Laboratory; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT), México (grants 271051, 232656, 260378, 179588, 239762, 254964, 271737, 258865, 243290, 132197), Laboratorio Nacional HAWC de rayos gamma; L’OREAL Fellowship for Women in Science 2014; Red HAWC, México; DGAPA-UNAM (grants IG100317, IN111315, IN111716-3, IA102715, 109916, IA102917); VIEP-BUAP; PIFI 2012, 2013, PROFO-CIE 2014, 2015;the University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation; the Institute of Geophysics, Planetary Physics, and Signatures at Los Alamos National Laboratory; Polish Science Centre grant DEC-2014/13/B/ST9/945; Coordinación de la Investigación Científica de la Univer-sidad Michoacana. Thanks to Luciano Díaz and Eduardo Murrieta for technical support.