New limits on Planck scale Lorentz violation in QED
T. Jacobson, S. Liberati, D. Mattingly, F. W. Stecker
Abstract
Constraints on possible Lorentz symmetry violation (LV) of order E/MPlanck for electrons and photons in the framework of effective field theory (EFT) are discussed. Using (i) the report of polarized MeV emission from GRB021206 and (ii) the absence of vacuum Cerenkov radiation from synchrotron electrons in the Crab nebula, we improve previous bounds by 10-10 and 10-2 respectively. We also show that the LV parameters for positrons and electrons are different, discuss electron helicity decay, and investigate investigate how prior constraints are modified by the relations between LV parameters implied by EFT.
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