Photon oscillations and cosmic background radiation

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Jan 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984natur.306..765g&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 306, Jan. 4, 1984, p. 765, 766.

Physics

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Background Radiation, Gauge Theory, Particle Mass, Photons, Relic Radiation, Microwave Spectra, Oscillations, Strong Interactions (Field Theory), Unified Field Theory

Scientific paper

The possible existence of a second species of photon which is uncoupled to known forms of matter is considered. Explicit mass terms in the Lagrangian can give rise to photon masses and to oscillations of photon identity without sacrificing the ability of the gauge theory to be renormalized. Photon oscillations much smaller than current upper limits on photon mass can significantly alter the spectral shape of the cosmic background radiation (CBR). It is shown that the apparent discrepancy between theoretical and observed CBR spectra can be resolved in terms of photon oscillations and a photon mass parameter of 5 x 10 to the -18th eV/sq c.

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