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Constraints on Lorentz Invariance Violation using INTEGRAL/IBIS observations of GRB041219A

P. Laurent
(
- DAPNIA, Saclay
)
,
D. Gotz
(
- DAPNIA, Saclay
)
,
P. Binetruy
(
- DAPNIA, Saclay
)
,
S. Covino
(
- Brera Observ.
)
,
A. Fernandez-Soto
(
- Cantabria Inst. of Phys.
)

Jun, 2011

5 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.D 83 (2011) 121301

e-Print:

1106.1068 [astro-ph.HE]

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.83.121301

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Abstract: (arXiv)

One of the experimental tests of Lorentz invariance violation is to measure the helicity dependence of the propagation velocity of photons originating in distant cosmological obejcts. Using a recent determination of the distance of the Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 041219A, for which a high degree of polarization is observed in the prompt emission, we are able to improve by 4 orders of magnitude the existing constraint on Lorentz invariance violation, arising from the phenomenon of vacuum birefringence.

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5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review D

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violation: Lorentz
gamma ray: burst
helicity: dependence
photon: velocity
photon: polarization
gamma ray: emission

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