Invariance Violation Extends the Cosmic Ray Horizon ?

Details Invariance Violation Extends the Cosmic Ray Horizon ? Invariance Violation Extends the Cosmic Ray Horizon ?

1999-04-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9904164v1

Astrophys.J. 518 (1999) L21-L24

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Ap J Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/312057

We postulate in the present paper that the energy-momentum relation is modified for very high energy particles to violate Lorentz invariance and the speed of photon is changed from the light velocity c. The violation effect is amplified, in a sensitive way to detection, through the modified kinematical constraints on the conservation of energy and momentum, in the absorption process of gamma-rays colliding against photons of longer wavelengths and converting into an electron-positron pair. For gamma-rays of energies higher than 10 TeV, the minimum energy of the soft photons for the reaction and then the absorption mean free path of gamma-rays are altered by orders of magnitude from the ones conventionally estimated. Consideration is similarly applied to high energy cosmic ray protons. The consequences may require the standard assumptions on the maximum distance that very high energy radiation can travel from to be revised.

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