Bounding the Photon Mass with Solar Probes
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-09-25 v1
Abstract
Proposed close-encounter solar probes (Vulcan and Solar Probe) are planned to have highly eccentric orbits, with a perihelion of about and an inclination close to out of the plane of the ecliptic. We show this could allow at least an order-of-magnitude improvement in the present directly measured limit on the photon mass.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9304250,
title = {Bounding the Photon Mass with Solar Probes},
author = {V. Alan Kostelecký and Michael Martin Nieto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9304250},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, LaTeX, Indiana University preprint IUHET 245 and Los Alamos Preprint LA-UR-93-1128