Closing a Window for Massive Photons

Working with the assumption of nonzero photon mass and a trajectory that is described by the nongeodesic world line of a spinning top we find, by deriving new astrophysical bounds, that this assumption is in contradiction with current experimental results. This yields the conclusion that such photon...

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Main Authors: Sergio A. Hojman, Benjamin Koch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-01-01
Series:Advances in High Energy Physics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/967805
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Summary:Working with the assumption of nonzero photon mass and a trajectory that is described by the nongeodesic world line of a spinning top we find, by deriving new astrophysical bounds, that this assumption is in contradiction with current experimental results. This yields the conclusion that such photons have to be exactly massless.
ISSN:1687-7357
1687-7365