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Radiatively induced Lorentz-violating photon masses

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 (United States)
We examine the radiative corrections to an extension of the standard model containing a Lorentz-violating axial vector parameter. At second order in this parameter, the photon self-energy is known to contain terms that violate gauge invariance. Previously, this has been treated as a pathology, but it is also possible to take the gauge noninvariant terms at face value. These terms then make Lorentz-violating contributions to the photon mass, and directly measured limits on the photon mass can be used to set bounds on the Lorentz violation at better than the 10{sup -22} GeV level.
OSTI ID:
20776697
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 73; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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