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Cosmological Searches for Photon Velocity Oscillations

Authors :
Sheldon L. Glashow
Publication Year :
1998
Publisher :
arXiv, 1998.

Abstract

We posit a second massless photon, uncoupled to known forms of matter but undergoing Lorentz non-invariant velocity mixing with ordinary photons. Our speculation within a speculation suffers from the sin of implausibility but enjoys the virtue of verifiability. To avoid unacceptable distortion of the well-measured microwave background spectrum, the velocity difference of the photons cannot exceed $\sim10^{-32} c$. Stronger constraints (or observable effects!) can arise from optical measurements of distant sources.<br />Comment: 4 pages, TEX with harvmac macros

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....d4f3a8583e620b50a7915d0dcf7cae7b
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9803202