Bound on the Photon Charge from the Phase Coherence of Extragalactic Radiation

Details Bound on the Photon Charge from the Phase Coherence of Extragalactic Radiation Bound on the Photon Charge from the Phase Coherence of Extragalactic Radiation

2007-03-12

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0703126v3

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 261801 (2007)

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

8 pages, new bound added, version appearing in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.261801

If the photon possessed a nonzero charge, then electromagnetic waves traveling along different paths would acquire Aharonov-Bohm phase differences. The fact that such an effect has not hindered interferometric astronomy places a bound on the photon charge estimated to be at the 10^(-32) e level if all photons have the same charge and 10^(-46) e if different photons can carry different charges.

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