Photon splitting constraint on Lorentz Invariance Violation from Crab Nebula spectrum
arXiv:1903.08464 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2019/04/054
Abstract
We calculate the decay width of the photon splitting into three photons in a model of quantum electrodynamics with broken Lorentz invariance. We show that this process can lead to a cut-off in the very-high-energy part of a photon spectra of astrophysical sources. We obtain the 95\% CL bound on the Lorentz violating mass scale for photons from the analysis of the very-high-energy part of the Crab Nebula spectrum, obtained by HEGRA. This bound improves previous constraints by more than an order of magnitude.
15 pages, 2 figures
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