Photon mass and very long baseline interferometry

DOI10.1142/S021827181001844XMaRDI QIDQ3001961zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eslley Scatena, Antonio Accioly, José A. Helayel-Neto

Publication date 19 May 2011

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2267

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational deflectionmassive QEDphoton massvery long baseline interferometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

Abstract: A relation between the photon mass, its frequency, $u$, and the deflection parameter, $gamma$, determined by experimentalists (which characterizes the contribution of space curvature to gravitational deflection) is found. This amazing result allows us to conclude that the knowledge of the parameters $u$ and $gamma$ is all we need to set up gravitational bounds on the photon mass. By considering as inputs the most recent measurements of the solar gravitational deflection of radio waves obtained via the Very Long Baseline Interferometry, upper bounds on the photon mass are estimated.

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