Thermal effects on the photon mass
- 15 March 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 27 (6) , 1393-1395
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.27.1393
Abstract
It is shown that processes of in which the photon interacts indirectly with the thermal neutrino background dominate electric screening at low temperature. The photon electric mass still comes out to be much smaller than the present experimental limit.
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