Bounds on Lorentz Invariance Violation from MAGIC Observation of GRB 190114C

Phys Rev Lett. 2020 Jul 10;125(2):021301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.021301.

Abstract

On January 14, 2019, the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov telescopes detected GRB 190114C above 0.2 TeV, recording the most energetic photons ever observed from a gamma-ray burst. We use this unique observation to probe an energy dependence of the speed of light in vacuo for photons as predicted by several quantum gravity models. Based on a set of assumptions on the possible intrinsic spectral and temporal evolution, we obtain competitive lower limits on the quadratic leading order of speed of light modification.