Expected Signature For the Lorentz Invariance Violation Effects on γ-γ Absorption
Abstract
There are still some significant and unanswered questions about the incredible very high energy (VHE) γ-ray signatures. To help understand the mechanism, focusing on the linear and quadratic perturbation mode for the subluminal regime, the present paper revisited the expected signature for the Lorentz invariance violation effects on γ-γ absorption in TeV spectra of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We note that there is a critical energy for the pair production process, which is sensitive to the assumed quantum gravity energy scale. We suggest that a reemergence of the energy spectrum of γ-rays at the several tens of TeV is a rough observational diagnostic for the Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) effects. The expected spectra characteristics are applied to a GRB 221009A. The results show that the cosmic opacity with LIV effects considered here can roughly reproduce the observed γ-ray spectra for the source, which enabled us to constrain the upper limit of the values of energy scale at E QG,~1≤3.35×1020 GeV for the linear perturbation and E QG,~2≤9.19×1012 GeV for the quadratic perturbation. These scenarios would update the bound of the LIV coefficient with 1≥ 3.62×10-2 for the linear perturbation, and 2≥ 1.33×106 for the quadratic perturbation in the standard model extension (SME) framework, respectively.
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