Limits to quantum gravity effects on energy dependence of the speed of light from observations of TeV flares in active galaxies
We have used data from a TeV γ-ray flare associated with the active galaxy Markarian 421 to place bounds on the possible energy dependence of the speed of light in the context of an effective quantum gravitational energy scale. Recent theoretical work suggests that such an energy scale could be less...
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| author | Biller, S Breslin, A Buckley, J Catanese, M Carson, M Carter-Lewis, D Cawley, M Fegan, D Finley, J Gaidos, J Hillas, A Krennrich, F Lamb, R Lessard, R Masterson, C McEnery, J McKernan, B Moriarty, P Quinn, J Rose, H Samuelson, F Sembroski, G Skelton, P Weekes, T |
| author_facet | Biller, S Breslin, A Buckley, J Catanese, M Carson, M Carter-Lewis, D Cawley, M Fegan, D Finley, J Gaidos, J Hillas, A Krennrich, F Lamb, R Lessard, R Masterson, C McEnery, J McKernan, B Moriarty, P Quinn, J Rose, H Samuelson, F Sembroski, G Skelton, P Weekes, T |
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| description | We have used data from a TeV γ-ray flare associated with the active galaxy Markarian 421 to place bounds on the possible energy dependence of the speed of light in the context of an effective quantum gravitational energy scale. Recent theoretical work suggests that such an energy scale could be less than the Planck mass and perhaps as low as 1016 GeV. The limits derived here indicate this energy scale to be in excess of 6 × 1016 GeV for at least one approach to quantum gravity in the context of D-brane string theory. To the best of our knowledge, this constitutes the first convincing limit on such phenomena in this energy regime. © 1999 The American Physical Society. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:3afeb773-ad16-48ca-8a81-57d90bef21c42022-03-26T14:05:02ZLimits to quantum gravity effects on energy dependence of the speed of light from observations of TeV flares in active galaxiesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:3afeb773-ad16-48ca-8a81-57d90bef21c4Symplectic Elements at Oxford1999Biller, SBreslin, ABuckley, JCatanese, MCarson, MCarter-Lewis, DCawley, MFegan, DFinley, JGaidos, JHillas, AKrennrich, FLamb, RLessard, RMasterson, CMcEnery, JMcKernan, BMoriarty, PQuinn, JRose, HSamuelson, FSembroski, GSkelton, PWeekes, TWe have used data from a TeV γ-ray flare associated with the active galaxy Markarian 421 to place bounds on the possible energy dependence of the speed of light in the context of an effective quantum gravitational energy scale. Recent theoretical work suggests that such an energy scale could be less than the Planck mass and perhaps as low as 1016 GeV. The limits derived here indicate this energy scale to be in excess of 6 × 1016 GeV for at least one approach to quantum gravity in the context of D-brane string theory. To the best of our knowledge, this constitutes the first convincing limit on such phenomena in this energy regime. © 1999 The American Physical Society. |
| spellingShingle | Biller, S Breslin, A Buckley, J Catanese, M Carson, M Carter-Lewis, D Cawley, M Fegan, D Finley, J Gaidos, J Hillas, A Krennrich, F Lamb, R Lessard, R Masterson, C McEnery, J McKernan, B Moriarty, P Quinn, J Rose, H Samuelson, F Sembroski, G Skelton, P Weekes, T Limits to quantum gravity effects on energy dependence of the speed of light from observations of TeV flares in active galaxies |
| title | Limits to quantum gravity effects on energy dependence of the speed of light from observations of TeV flares in active galaxies |
| title_full | Limits to quantum gravity effects on energy dependence of the speed of light from observations of TeV flares in active galaxies |
| title_fullStr | Limits to quantum gravity effects on energy dependence of the speed of light from observations of TeV flares in active galaxies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Limits to quantum gravity effects on energy dependence of the speed of light from observations of TeV flares in active galaxies |
| title_short | Limits to quantum gravity effects on energy dependence of the speed of light from observations of TeV flares in active galaxies |
| title_sort | limits to quantum gravity effects on energy dependence of the speed of light from observations of tev flares in active galaxies |
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