Photon: history, mass, charge Export

@misc{citeulike:494453, abstract = {The talk consists of three parts. ``History'' briefly describes the emergence and evolution of the concept of photon during the first two decades of the 20th century. ``Mass'' gives a short review of the literature on the upper limit of the photon's mass. ``Charge'' is a critical discussion of the existing interpretation of searches for photon charge. Schemes, in which all photons are charged, are grossly inconsistent. A model with three kinds of photons (positive, negative and neutral) seems at first sight to be more consistent, but turns out to have its own serious problems.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Okun, L. B.}, citeulike-article-id = {494453}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0602036}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0602036}, day = {3}, eprint = {hep-ph/0602036}, keywords = {photon, review}, month = {Feb}, posted-at = {2006-02-06 22:20:00}, priority = {2}, title = {Photon: history, mass, charge}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0602036}, year = {2006} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:494453 L3 - citeulike-article-id:494453 N2 - The talk consists of three parts. ``History'' briefly describes the emergence and evolution of the concept of photon during the first two decades of the 20th century. ``Mass'' gives a short review of the literature on the upper limit of the photon's mass. ``Charge'' is a critical discussion of the existing interpretation of searches for photon charge. Schemes, in which all photons are charged, are grossly inconsistent. A model with three kinds of photons (positive, negative and neutral) seems at first sight to be more consistent, but turns out to have its own serious problems. TI - Photon: history, mass, charge KW - photon KW - review AU - Okun, LB PY - 2006/Feb/03/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0602036 ER -