Slightly Massive Photon and Equivalence Principle

2012/05/09 by Eduard Massó, Masso, E.
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1205.1956

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Abstract

We show that in the Higgs model leading to a slightly massive photon there are one-loop diagrams which induce equivalence principle violations. This and other considerations implicate rather stringent constraints in the parameter space of the model.

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