TY - GEN
T1 - Searches for Anisotropic Lorentz-Invariance Violation in the Photon Sector
AU - Kislat, F.
AU - Krawczynski, H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Lorentz invariance, the fundamental symmetry of Einsteins theory of Special Relativity, has been established and tested by many classical and modern experiments. However, many theories that unify the Standard Model of particle physics and General Relativity predict a violation of Lorentz invariance at the Planck scale. While this energy range cannot be reached by current experiments, minute deviations from Lorentz symmetry may be present at lower energies. Astrophysical experiments are very suitable to search for these deviations, since their effects accumulate as photons travel across large distances. In this paper, we describe astrophysical methods that we used to constrain the photon dispersion and vacuum birefringence.
AB - Lorentz invariance, the fundamental symmetry of Einsteins theory of Special Relativity, has been established and tested by many classical and modern experiments. However, many theories that unify the Standard Model of particle physics and General Relativity predict a violation of Lorentz invariance at the Planck scale. While this energy range cannot be reached by current experiments, minute deviations from Lorentz symmetry may be present at lower energies. Astrophysical experiments are very suitable to search for these deviations, since their effects accumulate as photons travel across large distances. In this paper, we describe astrophysical methods that we used to constrain the photon dispersion and vacuum birefringence.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85048089040
U2 - 10.1142/9789813148505_0029
DO - 10.1142/9789813148505_0029
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85048089040
SN - 9789813148499
T3 - Proceedings of the 7th Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, 2016
SP - 113
EP - 116
BT - Proceedings of the Seventh Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry
A2 - Kostelecky, V. Alan
PB - World Scientific
T2 - 7th Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, CPT 2016
Y2 - 20 June 2016 through 24 June 2016
ER -