{ "id": "2210.05659", "version": "v1", "published": "2022-10-11T17:55:44.000Z", "updated": "2022-10-11T17:55:44.000Z", "title": "Axion-like particles explain the very-high energy emission from GRB221009A", "authors": [ "Giorgio Galanti", "Marco Roncadelli", "Fabrizio Tavecchio" ], "comment": "3 pages, 3 figures", "categories": [ "astro-ph.HE", "hep-ph" ], "abstract": "We show that the very recent detection of the gamma ray burst GRB221009A by the LHAASO experiment -- with its very-high-energy tail extending up to 18 TeV -- provides a hint at the existence of axion-like-particles with mass ${\\cal O} (10^{-10}) \\, {\\rm eV}$ and two-photon coupling ${\\cal O} (10^{-11}) \\, {\\rm GeV}^{- 1}$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2022-10-11T17:55:44.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "very-high energy emission", "axion-like particles explain", "gamma ray burst grb221009a", "lhaaso experiment", "very-high-energy tail" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 3, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }