Testing Lorentz Non-Invariance with GRB021206
Year: 2003
Type: preprint
Abstract: Since the discovery of the cosmological origin of GRBs there has been growing interest in using these transient events to probe the quantum gravity energy scale in the range 10^16 --10^19 GeV, up to the Planck mass scale. This energy scale can manifest itself through a measurable modification in the electromagnetic radiation dispersion relation for high energy photons originating from cosmological distances. We have used data from the gamma-ray burst (GRB) of 6 December 2002 (GRB021206) to place an upper bound on the energy dispersion of the speed of light. The limit on the first-order quantum gravity effects derived from this single GRB indicate that the energy scale is in excess of 1.3x10^17 GeV. We discuss a program to further constrain the energy scale by systematically studying such GRBs.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Steven E. Boggs, C. Wunderer, K. Hurley, W. Coburn
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2964347998