The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory(LHAASO)has reported the detection of a large number of multi-Te V-scale photon events also including several Pe V-scale gamma-ray-photon events with energy as high as 1.4...The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory(LHAASO)has reported the detection of a large number of multi-Te V-scale photon events also including several Pe V-scale gamma-ray-photon events with energy as high as 1.4 Pe V.The possibility that some of these events may have extragalactic origins is not yet excluded.Here we propose a mechanism for the traveling of very-high-energy and ultra-high-energy photons based upon the axionphoton conversion scenario,which allows extragalactic above-threshold photons to be detected by observers on the Earth.We show that the axion-photon conversation can serve as an alternative mechanism,besides the threshold anomaly due to Lorentz invariance violation,for the very-high-energy features of the newly observed gamma ray burst GRB 221009A.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12075003)。
文摘The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory(LHAASO)has reported the detection of a large number of multi-Te V-scale photon events also including several Pe V-scale gamma-ray-photon events with energy as high as 1.4 Pe V.The possibility that some of these events may have extragalactic origins is not yet excluded.Here we propose a mechanism for the traveling of very-high-energy and ultra-high-energy photons based upon the axionphoton conversion scenario,which allows extragalactic above-threshold photons to be detected by observers on the Earth.We show that the axion-photon conversation can serve as an alternative mechanism,besides the threshold anomaly due to Lorentz invariance violation,for the very-high-energy features of the newly observed gamma ray burst GRB 221009A.