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Photon: history, mass, charge
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 3 Feb 2006
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The authors' main claim Schemes, in which all photons are charged, are grossly inconsistent.
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The talk consists of three parts. ``History'' briefly describes the emergence and evolution of the concept of photon during the first two decades of the 20th century. ``Mass'' gives a short review of the literature on the upper limit of the photon's mass. ``Charge'' is a critical discussion of the existing interpretation of searches for photon charge. Schemes, in which all photons are charged, are grossly inconsistent. A model with three kinds of photons (positive, negative and neutral) seems at first sight to be more consistent, but turns out to have its own serious problems.
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| s0 | The talk consists of three parts. ``History'' briefly describes the emergence and evolution of the concept of photon during the first two decades of the 20th century. ``Mass'' gives a short review of the literature on the upper limit of the photon's mass. ``Charge'' is a critical discussion of the existing interpretation of searches for photon charge. | contribution 0.72 | 0.16 | 0.04 | asserted 0.78 |
| s1 | Schemes, in which all photons are charged, are grossly inconsistent. | result 0.66 | 0.14 | 0.33 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | A model with three kinds of photons (positive, negative and neutral) seems at first sight to be more consistent, but turns out to have its own serious problems. | result 0.67 | 0.24 | 0.20 | asserted 0.94 |
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The talk consists of three parts. ``History'' briefly describes the emergence and evolution of the concept of photon during the first two decades of the 20th century. ``Mass'' gives a short review of the literature on the upper limit of the photon's mass. ``Charge'' is a critical discussion of the existing interpretation of searches for photon charge. Schemes, in which all photons are charged, are grossly inconsistent. A model with three kinds of photons (positive, negative and neutral) seems at first sight to be more consistent, but turns out to have its own serious problems.
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The photon rest mass can then be effectively constrained by seeking such effects [ref] .
Revisiting constraints on the photon rest mass with cosmological fast radio bursts · Introduction · 0.80
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All of these effects have been employed to set upper limits on the photon rest mass via various terrestrial and extra-terrestrial approaches [ref] .
Bounding the Photon Mass with the Dedispersed Pulses of the Crab Pulsar and FRB 180916B · INTRODUCTION · 0.95
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Over the last few decades, various kinds of experimental approaches have been performed to push the empirical boundary on the masslessness of photons (see [ref] for reviews).
Bounding the photon mass with gravitationally lensed fast radio bursts · Introduction · 1.00
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