Photon mass and gravitational deflection

Antonio Accioly and Ricardo Paszko
Phys. Rev. D 69, 107501 – Published 17 May 2004
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Abstract

The deflection of a massive photon by an external gravitational field is energy-dependent. Interesting enough, any massive quantum particle, no matter what its spin is, undergoes dispersive deflection in external gravitational fields. Exploiting the dispersive deflection of the quantized massive electromagnetic radiation by the gravitational field of the Sun, we find an upper bound for the photon mass.

  • Received 16 December 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.69.107501

©2004 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Antonio Accioly* and Ricardo Paszko

  • Instituto de Física Teórica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rua Pamplona 145, 01405-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil

  • *Electronic address: accioly@ift.unesp.br

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Vol. 69, Iss. 10 — 15 May 2004

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