Gauge Invariant Massive Long Range and Long Lived Photons
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2014
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Scientific Research
Abstract
Prevailing and conventional wisdom holds that intermediate gauge Bosons for long range interactions such as
the gravitational and electromagnetic interactions must be massless as is assumed to be the case for the photon
whichmediates the electromagnetic interaction. We have argued in a different reading that it should in-principle
be possible to have massive photons. The problem of whether or not these photons will lead to short or long
range interactions has not been answered. Naturally, because these photons are massive, one would without
much pondering and excogitation on the matter assume that these photons can only take part in short range
interactions. Contrary to this and to conventional wisdom; via a subtlety – namely, the foregoing of the Lorenz
gauge and in line with ideas set out in out proposed Unified Field Theory, the introduction of a vector potential
whose components are 4 × 4 hermitian matrices; we show within the confines of Proca Electrodynamics under
the said modifications, that massive photons should be long lived (i.e., stable) and be able to take part in long
range interactions without any problem.”
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Gauge Invariant Massive Long
Range and Long Lived Photons is a published article of the Applied physics department.
Keywords
Curved Spacetime Dirac Equation, General Spin Dirac Equation, Massive Photon, Unified Field Theory
Citation
Nyambuya, G. G. 2014. Gauge Invariant Massive Long Range and Long Lived Photons. Journal of Modern Physics, 5(10), pp.1-8.