Improved limit on quantum-spacetime modifications of Lorentz symmetry from observations of gamma-ray blazars

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2002-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0212002v3

New J.Phys.6:188,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Published version [New J.Phys. 6 (2004) 188]. Title changed. Several changes made during the long editing period. Revised comm

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/6/1/188

In the quantum-gravity literature there has been interest in the possibility that quantum properties of spacetime might affect the energy/momentum dispersion relation. The most used test theory for data analysis is based on a modification of the laws of propagation proposed in astro-ph/9712103 [Nature 393,763], and the present best limit on the quantum-gravity scale was obtained in gr-qc/9810044 [Phys.Rev.Lett.83,2108]. I derive an improved limit using recent experimental information on absorption by the infrared diffuse extragalactic background of $\gamma$-rays emitted by blazars. Foreseeable more accurate determinations of the absorption levels could achieve Planck-scale sensitivity. As a corollary I also show that, contrary to the recent claim of astro-ph/0208507v3, the test theory here considered does not allow decays of photons into electron-positron pairs, and I expose the limitations of phenomenological proposals, such as the one reported in astro-ph/0212190, in which one attempts to infer limits on the kinematic theory here considered through the ad hoc introduction of a dynamical framework.

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