July 28, 2020 to August 6, 2020
virtual conference
Europe/Prague timezone

On the Abraham-Minkowski controversy: Can the time delay of the gamma-ray bursts travelling through interstellar space be explained without invoking the Lorentz-invariance violation?

Jul 28, 2020, 5:40 PM
25m
virtual conference

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Talk 08. Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology

Speaker

Prof. Masud Chaichian (University of Helsinki)

Description

The ANTARES neutrino telescope and other experiments are searching for more detailed information on the previously observed shifted high-energy neutrinos from the gamma-ray bursts travelling through interstellar space. Many theoretical models have been proposed to explain this phenomenon, based on assuming the Lorentz-invariance violation. In this talk I shall show that the dispersion phenomenon of gamma-ray in an interstellar space considered as a cosmic plasma can explain this effect. This in turn indicates that invoking the drastic assumption of Lorentz-invariance violation for such a problem can be premature.

Secondary track (number) 10.

Primary author

Prof. Masud Chaichian (University of Helsinki)

Co-authors

Prof. Iver Brevik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway) Prof. Ion Cotaescu (West University of Timisoara, Romania)

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