Photon in the Earth-ionosphere cavity: Schumann resonances
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2019-04-17 v3 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract
We study a quantum analogy of Schumann resonances by solving massless and massive spin-1 particle equations derived from the Zitterbewegung model in an annular cavity background with poorly conducting walls. We also show that the massless case and the massive case in the limit are compatible with Maxwell's electromagnetic theory. Furthermore, from the massive case, we predict an upper limit for the mass of the photon of 1.3xkg. The bound on the mass of the photon is compatible with the current limit in the literature.
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@article{arxiv.1803.10685,
title = {Photon in the Earth-ionosphere cavity: Schumann resonances},
author = {Yusuf Sucu and Cavit Tekincay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.10685},
year = {2019}
}
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8 pages, 1 table, accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science