Threshold effects and Planck scale Lorentz violation: Combined constraints from high energy astrophysics

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Jacobson, T ^a   Liberati, S ^a   Mattingly, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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ARTICLE; ASTROPHYSICS; CALCULATION; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ELECTRON; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; ENERGY; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEUTRINO; PARAMETER; PHOTON; PHYSICS; QUANTUM THEORY; VACUUM;

EID: 0042855746     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.67.124011     Document Type: Article

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