Tomasz J Konopka and Seth A Major 2002 New J. Phys. 4 57 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/4/1/357
Observational limits on quantum geometry effects
Tomasz J Konopka and Seth A Major
Show affiliationsUsing a form of modified dispersion relations derived in the context of quantum geometry, we investigate limits set by current observations on potential corrections to Lorentz invariance. We use a phenomological model in which there are separate parameters for photons, leptons and hadrons. Constraints on these parameters are derived using thresholds for the processes of photon stability, photon absorption, vacuum Cerenkov radiation, pion stability and the GZK cutoff. Although the allowed region in parameter space is tightly constrained, non-vanishing corrections to Lorentz symmetry due to quantum geometry are consistent with current astrophysical observations.
- PACS
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04.60.Pp Loop quantum gravity, quantum geometry, spin foams
11.30.Cp Lorentz and Poincare invariance
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Issue 1 (August 2002)
Received 12 March 2002, in final form 1 July 2002
Published 2 August 2002
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Observational limits on quantum geometry effects
Tomasz J Konopka and Seth A Major 2002 New J. Phys. 4 57
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