Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-08-07
Phys.Rev. D64 (2001) 036005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
LaTex (epsfig), 20 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.64.036005
One of the most puzzling current experimental physics paradoxes is the arrival on Earth of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays with energies above the GZK threshold. The recent observation of 20TeV photons from Mk 501 is another somewhat similar paradox. Several models have been proposed for the UHECR paradox. No solution has yet been proposed for the TeV-$\gamma$ paradox. Remarkably, the drastic assumption of a violation of ordinary Lorentz invariance would resolve both paradoxes. We present a formalism for the description of the type of Lorentz-invariance deformation (LID) that could be induced by non-trivial short-distance structure of space-time, and we show that this formalism is well suited for comparison of experimental data with LID predictions. We use the UHECR and TeV-$\gamma$ data, as well as bounds on time-of-flight differences between photons of different energies, to constrain the LID parameter space. A model with only two parameters, an energy scale and a dimensionless parameter characterizing the functional dependence on the energy scale, is shown to be sufficient to solve both the UHECR and the TeV-$\gamma$ threshold anomalies while satisfying the time-of-flight bounds. The allowed region of the two-parameter space is relatively small, but, remarkably, it fits perfectly the expectations of the quantum-gravity-motivated space-time models known to support such deformations of Lorentz invariance: integer value of the dimensionless parameter and characteristic energy scale constrained to a narrow interval in the neighborhood of the Planck scale.
Amelino-Camelia Giovanni
Piran Tsvi
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