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Title: Bulk black hole, escaping photons, and bounds on violations of Lorentz invariance

Abstract

There are reasons (which we enumerate) to think that an infinite extra dimension will harbor a black hole. In this case, brane-localized modes of gravity and gauge fields become quasilocalized, and light from a distant object can become extinct as it is lost to the black hole. In a concrete scenario, where the photon is localized by gravity, we find that the extinction rate for propagating photons is at least comparable to the correction to the real part of the frequency. That results, for example, in a stringent bound on renormalization of the speed of light.

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  1. Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 (United States)
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OSTI Identifier:
21020200
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Journal Article
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Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields; Journal Volume: 75; Journal Issue: 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.065021; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; BLACK HOLES; BRANES; CORRECTIONS; GRAVITATION; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; PHOTONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RENORMALIZATION

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Khlebnikov, S. Bulk black hole, escaping photons, and bounds on violations of Lorentz invariance. United States: N. p., 2007. Web. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVD.75.065021.
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@article{osti_21020200,
title = {Bulk black hole, escaping photons, and bounds on violations of Lorentz invariance},
author = {Khlebnikov, S.},
abstractNote = {There are reasons (which we enumerate) to think that an infinite extra dimension will harbor a black hole. In this case, brane-localized modes of gravity and gauge fields become quasilocalized, and light from a distant object can become extinct as it is lost to the black hole. In a concrete scenario, where the photon is localized by gravity, we find that the extinction rate for propagating photons is at least comparable to the correction to the real part of the frequency. That results, for example, in a stringent bound on renormalization of the speed of light.},
doi = {10.1103/PHYSREVD.75.065021},
journal = {Physical Review. D, Particles Fields},
number = 6,
volume = 75,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2007},
month = {Thu Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2007}
}
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DOI:  10.1103/PHYSREVD.75.065021
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