Observability of the very-high-energy emission from GRB 221009A

Abstract

The LHAASO Collaboration detected the gamma ray burst GRB 221009A at energies above $500\mathrm{GeV}$ with a tail extending up to $18\mathrm{TeV}$, whose spectral analysis has presently been performed up to $7\mathrm{TeV}$ for the lower energy instrument LHAASO-WCDA only, with no indication of a cutoff. Soon thereafter, Carpet-2 at Baksan Neutrino Observatory reported the observation of an air shower consistent with being caused by a photon of energy $251\mathrm{TeV}$ from the same GRB. Given the source redshift $z=0.151$, the expected attenuation due to the extragalactic background light is very severe so that these detections have proven very hard to explain. In this Letter, we show that the existence of axion-like-particles (ALPs) with mass $m_a\simeq (10^{-11}-10^{-7})\mathrm{eV}$ and two-photon coupling $g_{a\gamma \gamma }\simeq (3-5)\times 10^{-12}{\mathrm{GeV}}^{-1}$ strongly reduce the optical depth of TeV photons, thus explaining the observations. Our ALPs meet all available constraints, are consistent with two previous hints at their existence and are good candidates for cold dark matter. Moreover, we show that Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) can explain the Carpet-2 result but not the LHAASO observations.

arXiv comment22 pages, 13 figures, This version matches the published paper: Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 251001 (2023)

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