The 5ᵗ ͪ International Symposium on Cosmic Rays and Astrophysics (ISCRA-2025)

Is Lorentz Invariance Violation the Key to the Muon Puzzle?

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15m

National Research Nuclear University MEPhI

Original Talk Cosmic rays (nuclei, gammas, neutrinos) of very high energies (> 100 TeV) Cosmic rays (nuclei, gammas, neutrinos) of very high energies (> 100 TeV)

Speaker

Andrey Sharofeev (MSU, INR RAS)

Description

Recent experimental results have shown an excess of muons in extensive air showers produced by cosmic rays with energies above $10^{17}$ eV. In this work, I discuss how even small deviations from Lorentz-invariant physics could influence the interpretation of the current state of the so-called "muon puzzle."