| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 136, 2017
RICAP16, 6th Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics
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| Article Number | 03018 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Gamma Rays | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713603018 | |
| Published online | 23 March 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713603018
Limits on Lorentz invariance violation at the Planck energy scale from H.E.S.S. spectral analysis of the blazar Mrk 501
Irfu, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette France
a e-mail: matthias.lorentz@cea.fr
b e-mail: pierre.brun@cea.fr
Published online: 23 March 2017
Some extensions to the Standard Model lead to the introduction of Lorentz symmetry breaking terms, expected to induce deviations from Lorentz symmetry around the Planck scale. A parameterization of effects due to Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) can be introduced by adding an effective term to the photon dispersion relation. This affects the kinematics of electron-positron pair creation by TeV γ rays on the extragalactic background light (EBL) and translates into modifications of the standard EBL opacity for the TeV photon spectra of extragalactic sources. Exclusion limits are presented, obtained with the spectral analysis of H.E.S.S. observations taken on the blazar Mrk 501 during the exceptional 2014 flare. The energy spectrum, extending very significantly above 10 TeV, allows to place strong limits on LIV in the photon sector at the level of the Planck energy scale for linear perturbations in the photon dispersion relation, and provides the strongest constraints presently for the case of quadratic perturbations.
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