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Lab Experiment Probes Photon Charge

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Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., have devised a new apparatus for measuring the upper limit on the charge of the photon. The approach, which was described in the Jan. 1 issue of Physical Review D, has yielded results an order of magnitude better than previous laboratory experiments, and it promises a sensitivity of 10-21 e with minor improvements. Variations in the time of flight of radio-frequency emissions from pulsars due to dispersion in the intergalactic magnetic field have produced an upper limit on photon charge of 5 x 10-30 e, but laboratory tests had...Read full article

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    Published: March 2003
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    photon
    A quantum of electromagnetic energy of a single mode; i.e., a single wavelength, direction and polarization. As a unit of energy, each photon equals hn, h being Planck's constant and n, the frequency of the propagating electromagnetic wave. The momentum of the photon in the direction of propagation is hn/c, c being the speed of light.
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