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Published on: November 15, 2013
Strict limit on CPT violation from polarization of γ-ray bursts
Kenji Toma1, Shinji Mukohyama, Daisuke Yonetoku
1Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka 560-0043, Japan.
Abstract:
We report the strictest observational verification of CPT invariance in the photon sector, as a result of γ-ray polarization measurement of distant gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are the brightest stellar-sized explosions in the Universe. We detected γ-ray polarization of three GRBs with high significance levels, and the source distances may be constrained by a well-known luminosity indicator for GRBs. For the Lorentz- and CPT-violating dispersion relation E(±)(2) = p(2) ± 2ξp(3)/M(Pl), where ± denotes different circular polarization states of the photon, the parameter ξ is constrained as |ξ|
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