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arxiv: hep-ph/0110094 · v3 · pith:4ZIJO26Mnew · submitted 2001-10-05 · ✦ hep-ph · astro-ph· gr-qc· hep-th

High energy constraints on Lorentz symmetry violations

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keywords constraintshighlorentzdispersionenergyrelationsviolationamount
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Lorentz violation at high energies might lead to non linear dispersion relations for the fundamental particles. We analyze observational constraints on these without assuming any a priori equality between the coefficients determining the amount of Lorentz violation for different particle species. We focus on constraints from three high energy processes involving photons and electrons: photon decay, photo-production of electron-positron pairs, and vacuum Cerenkov radiation. We find that cubic momentum terms in the dispersion relations are strongly constrained.

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