Lorentz invariance violation from GRB 221009A

Abstract

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) reported observation of photons with energies above 10[Formula: see text]TeV from gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A. A suggestion was proposed that this result may contradict our knowledge of special relativity (SR) and the standard model (SM), according to which photons of about 10[Formula: see text]TeV from such a distant object should be severely suppressed because of the absorption by extragalactic background light. As a result, a number of mechanisms have been proposed to solve this potential puzzle, including Lorentz invariance violation (LIV). In this work, we perform a detailed numerical calculation and show the feasibility to constrain LIV of photons from the LHAASO observation of GRB 221009A quantitatively.

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