Vol 9, No 4

Testing Lorentz violation using propagating UHECRs

Cong-Xin Qiu, Zi-Gao Dai

Abstract

Abstract Lorentz invariant violation (LIV) test is important for studying modern physics. All the known astrophysical constraints either have a very small examinable parameter space or are only suitable for some special theoretical models. Here, we suggest that it is possible to directly detect the time-delay of ultra-high-energy cosmic-rays (UHECRs). We discuss some difficulties in our method, including the intergalactic magnetic fields. It seems that none of them are crucial, hence this method could give a larger examinable parameter space and a stronger constraint on LIV.

Keywords

Keywords cosmic rays— gamma rays: bursts— ISM: magnetic fields — relativity

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