Testing Photons' Bose-Einstein Statistics With Compton Scattering

Details Testing Photons' Bose-Einstein Statistics With Compton Scattering Testing Photons' Bose-Einstein Statistics With Compton Scattering

2010-08-27

arxiv.org/abs/1008.4779v1

Phys.Rev.D82:101703,2010

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

8 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.82.101703

It is an empirical question whether photons always obey Bose-Einstein statistics, but devising and interpreting experimental tests of photon statistics can be a challenge. The nonrelativistic cross section for Compton scattering illustrates how a small admixture nu of wrong-sign statistics leads to a loss of gauge invariance; there is a large anomalous amplitude for scattering timelike photons. Nevertheless, one can interpret the observed transparency of the solar wind plasma at low frequencies as a bound nu < 10^(-25) if Lorentz symmetry is required. If there is instead a universal preferred frame, the bound is nu < 10^(-14), still strong compared with previous results.

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