Closing a window for massive photons
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2013-01-25 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Working with the assumption of non-zero photon mass and a trajectory that is described by the non geodesic 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.
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@article{arxiv.1209.4907,
title = {Closing a window for massive photons},
author = {Sergio A. Hojman and Benjamin Koch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.4907},
year = {2013}
}
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5 pages, 1 figure