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On angular momentum and rest mass of the photon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2014
Abstract
A reconsideration is made on the basic concepts of the individual photon, including its angular momentum (spin) and a possibly existing very small rest mass. In terms of conventional classical theory, as well as of its quantum mechanical counterpart, the results from a so far established Standard Model of an empty vacuum state are not found to be reconcilable with an experimentally relevant photon model. The main properties of such a model would on the other hand become compatible with the results of a recently established revised quantum electrodynamic theory based on a non-zero electric field divergence in the vacuum and a corresponding symmetry breaking of the electromagnetic field.
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- Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 79 , Special Issue 6: Special issue in memory of Professor Padma Kant Shukla 1950-2013 , December 2013 , pp. 1133 - 1135
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