%0 Journal Article
%T A limit on the variation of the speed of light arising from quantum gravity effects
%+ Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112))
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%A Abdo, A.A.
%A Ackermann, Markus
%A Ajello, Marco
%A Asano, K.
%A Atwood, William B.
%A Axelsson, Magnus
%A Baldini, Luca
%A Ballet, Jean
%A Barbiellini, Guido
%A Baring, Matthew G.
%A Bastieri, D.
%A Bechtol, K.
%A Bellazzini, R.
%A Berenji, B.
%A Bhat, P. N.
%A Bissaldi, E.
%A Bloom, E.D.
%A Bonamente, E.
%A Bonnell, J.
%A Borgland, A.W.
%A Bouvier, A.
%A Bregeon, J.
%A Brez, A.
%A Briggs, M. S.
%A Brigida, M.
%A Bruel, Pascal
%A Burgess, J.M.
%A Burnett, T.H.
%A Caliandro, G. A.
%A Cameron, R. A.
%A Caraveo, P. A.
%A Casandjian, J.M.
%A Cecchi, C.
%A Celik, O.
%A Chaplin, V.
%A Charles, E.
%A Cheung, C.C.
%A Chiang, J.
%A Ciprini, S.
%A Claus, R.
%A Cohen-Tanugi, J.
%A Cominsky, L. R.
%A Connaughton, V.
%A Conrad, J.
%A Cutini, S.
%A Dermer, C.D.
%A de Angelis, A.
%A de Palma, F.
%A Digel, S.W.
%A Dingus, B. L.
%A Do Couto E Silva, E.
%A Drell, P. S.
%A Dubois, R.
%A Dumora, D.
%A Farnier, C.
%A Favuzzi, C.
%A Fegan, S.J.
%A Finke, J.
%A Fishman, G.
%A Focke, W.B.
%A Foschini, L.
%A Fukazawa, Y.
%A Funk, S.
%A Fusco, P.
%A Gargano, F.
%A Gasparrini, D.
%A Gehrels, N.
%A Germani, S.
%A Gibby, L.
%A Giebels, B.
%A Giglietto, N.
%A Giordano, F.
%A Glanzman, T.
%A Godfrey, G.
%A Granot, J.
%A Greiner, J.
%A Grenier, I.A.
%A Grondin, M.H.
%A Grove, J.E.
%A Grupe, D.
%A Guillemot, L.
%A Guiriec, S.
%A Hanabata, Y.
%A Harding, A. K.
%A Hayashida, M.
%A Hays, E.
%A Hoversten, E.A.
%A Hugues, R.E.
%A Jóhannesson, G.
%A Johnson, A. S.
%A Johnson, R. P.
%A Johnson, W. N.
%A Kamae, T.
%A Katagiri, H.
%A Kataoka, J.
%A Kawai, N.
%A Kerr, M.
%A Kippen, R. M.
%A Knödlseder, Jürgen
%A Kocevski, D.
%A Kouveliotou, C.
%A Kuehn, F.
%A Kuss, M.
%A Lande, J.
%A Latronico, L.
%A Lemoine-Goumard, M.
%A Longo, F.
%A Loparco, F.
%A Lott, B.
%A Lovellette, M.N.
%A Lubrano, P.
%A Madjeski, G.M.
%A Makeev, A.
%A Mazziotta, M.N.
%A Mcbreen, S.
%A Mcenery, J.E.
%A Mcglynn, S.
%A Mészáros, P.
%A Meurer, C.
%A Michelson, P.F.
%A Mitthumsiri, W.
%A Mizuno, T.
%A Moiseev, A.A.
%A Monte, C.
%A Monzani, M.E.
%A Moretti, E.
%A Morselli, A.
%A Moskalenko, I. V.
%A Murgia, S.
%A Nakamori, T.
%A Nolan, P.L.
%A Norris, J.P.
%A Nuss, E.
%A Ohno, M.
%A Ohsugi, T.
%A Omodei, N.
%A Orlando, E.
%A Ormes, J.F.
%A Ozaki, M.
%A Paciesas, W. S.
%A Paneque, D.
%A Panetta, J.H.
%A Parent, D.
%A Pelassa, V.
%A Pepe, M.
%A Pesce-Rollins, M.
%A Petrosian, V.
%A Piron, F.
%A Porter, T.A.
%A Preece, R.
%A Rainò, S.
%A Ramirez-Ruiz, E.
%A Rando, R.
%A Razzano, M.
%A Razzaque, S.
%A Reimer, A.
%A Reimer, O.
%A Reposeur, T.
%A Ritz, S.
%A Rochester, L.S.
%A Rodriguez, A.Y.
%A Roth, M.
%A Ryde, F.
%A Sadrozinski, H. F.-W.
%A Sanchez, D.
%A Sander, A.
%A Saz Parkinson, P.M.
%A Scargle, J.D.
%A Schalk, T. L.
%A Sgro, G.
%A Siskind, E.J.
%A Smith, D.A.
%A Smith, P.D.
%A Spandre, G.
%A Spinelli, P.
%A Stamatikos, M.
%A Stecker, F. W.
%A Strickman, M.S.
%A Suson, D.J.
%A Tajima, H.
%A Takahashi, H.
%A Takahashi, T.
%A Tanaka, T.
%A Thayer, J.B.
%A Thayer, J.G.
%A Thompson, D.J.
%A Tibaldo, L.
%A Toma, K.
%A Torres, D.F.
%A Tosti, G.
%A Troja, E.
%A Uchiyama, Y.
%A Uehara, T.
%A Usher, T.L.
%A van Der Horst, A. J.
%A Vasileiou, V.
%A Vilchez, N.
%A Vitale, V.
%A von Kienlin, A.
%A Waite, A. P.
%A Wang, P.
%A Wilson-Hodge, C.
%A Winer, B. L.
%A Wood, K.S.
%A Wu, X. F.
%A Yamazaki, R.
%A Ylinen, T.
%A Ziegler, M.
%< avec comité de lecture
%@ 0028-0836
%J Nature
%I Nature Publishing Group
%V 462
%P 331-334
%8 2009-11-19
%D 2009
%Z 0908.1832
%R 10.1038/nature08574
%K GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
%K HIGH-ENERGY
%K VIOLATION
%K EMISSION
%K PHOTONS
%K LORENTZ
%K TESTS
%K FOAM
%Z Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]Journal articles
%X A cornerstone of Einstein's special relativity is Lorentz invariance-the postulate that all observers measure exactly the same speed of light in vacuum, independent of photon-energy. While special relativity assumes that there is no fundamental length-scale associated with such invariance, there is a fundamental scale (the Planck scale, l(Planck) approximate to 1.62 x 10(-33) cm or E-Planck = M(Planck)c(2) approximate to 1.22 x 10(19) GeV), at which quantum effects are expected to strongly affect the nature of space-time. There is great interest in the (not yet validated) idea that Lorentz invariance might break near the Planck scale. A key test of such violation of Lorentz invariance is a possible variation of photon speed with energy(1-7). Even a tiny variation in photon speed, when accumulated over cosmological light-travel times, may be revealed by observing sharp features in gamma-ray burst (GRB) light-curves(2). Here we report the detection of emission up to similar to 31GeV from the distant and short GRB090510. We find no evidence for the violation of Lorentz invariance, and place a lower limit of 1.2E(Planck) on the scale of a linear energy dependence (or an inverse wavelength dependence), subject to reasonable assumptions about the emission (equivalently we have an upper limit of l(Planck)/1.2 on the length scale of the effect). Our results disfavour quantum-gravity theories(3,6,7) in which the quantum nature of space-time on a very small scale linearly alters the speed of light.
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