Search for Lorentz Invariance Violation using Bayesian model comparison applied to Xiao et al. GRB spectral lag catalog

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We use the spectral lag catalog of 46 short GRBs aggregated by Xiao et al (2022), to carry out an independent search for Lorentz Invariance violation (LIV).

• For this purpose, we use a power-law model as a function of energy for the intrinsic astrophysical induced spectral lags.
• The expansion history of the universe needed for constraining LIV was obtained in a non-parametric method using cosmic chronometers.
• We use Bayesian model comparison to determine if the aforementioned spectral lags show evidence for LIV as compared to only astrophysically induced lags.