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Magnetic charge as a ``hidden'' gauge symmetry (English)
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5 July 1995
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Generalized electrodynamics with both electric and magnetic charges is formulated as a gauge theory with two four-vector potentials, i.e. two massless gauge fields, the ordinary Maxwell field (``electric'' photon) and a ``magnetic'' photon field. Since no magnetic massless photons have ever been observed, the author suggests to make such photons massive via a Higgs mechanism which ``hides'' the magnetic charge at energies far below the symmetry breaking energy scale.
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generalized electrodynamic
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gauge theory
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magnetic massless photons
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