تقرير
Shining massive light through a wall
| العنوان: | Shining massive light through a wall |
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| المؤلفون: | Malta, P. C. |
| المصدر: | Phys. Rev. D 107, 115018 (2023) |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Physics (Other) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Physics - Optics |
| الوصف: | A massive photon possesses a longitudinal polarization mode absent in its massless counterpart. Transverse and longitudinal modes follow different dispersion relations, the latter being much less attenuated than the former when passing through a conductor, suggesting the possibility of isolating longitudinal modes by shining intense light on a conducting wall. We calculate the transmission rates for normal incidence upon a semi-infinite medium and passage through a slab. For the second case we compare the expected photon fluxes with those measurable in current and future light-shining-through-a-wall experiments. Using a 1-MW microwave source as envisaged by the STAX project, a sensitivity at the level of $m_\gamma < 9.6 \times 10^{-11} \, {\rm eV/c^2}$ could be reached after a run time of an year, with a potential improvement by a factor of $\sim 10^4$ if radio waves of similar power are used. Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures. Matches journal version |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.115018 |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10505 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2303.10505 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.115018 |
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