Probing Lorentz Invariance at EeV Energy
arXiv:0907.2752 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2009/08/005
Abstract
Pierre Auger experiment has detected at least a couple of ray events above energy 60 EeV from the direction of the radio-galaxy Centaurus A. Assuming those events are from Centaurus A, we have calculated the number of neutral cosmic ray events from this source for small values of the degree of violation in Lorentz invariance. Our results show that a comparison of our calculated numbers of events with the observed number of events at EeV energy from the direction of the source can probe extremely low value of the degree of this violation.
8 pages,4 figures
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