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Mixing of the photon with low-mass particles
Abstract
Photons can mix with low-mass bosons in the presence of external electromagnetic fields if these particles---not necessarily of spin 1---couple by a two-photon vertex. Important examples are the hypothetical axion (spin 0) and graviton (spin 2). We develop a formalism which is adapted to study the evolution of a photon (axion, graviton) beam in the presence of external fields. We apply our results to discuss the possibility of detecting axions by a measurement of the magnetically induced birefringence of the vacuum. We also discuss photon-axion (graviton) transitions in pulsar magnetic fields. The QED-induced nonlinearity of Maxwell's equations causes magnetic birefringence effects which are much stronger than the axion-induced effects in the range of axion parameters allowed by astrophysical constraints. Also, this QED effect induces an index of refraction for photons in vacuum which is so large near pulsars that photon-axion (graviton) transitions are strongly suppressed. However, this QED effect can be canceled by plasma refractive effects, leading to degeneracy between photons and axions so that resonant transitions can occur in analogy with the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect. The adiabatic condition can be met only in spatially extended systems, possibly in the magnetosphere of magnetic white dwarfs. Our conclusions differ substantially from several recent discussions of various aspects of these mixing phenomena.
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- Authors
- Raffelt, G., & Stodolsky, L.
- Venue
- Physical Review D
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1988-03-01
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1237-1249
- ISSN
- 0556-2821 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2107675258
- Cited by
- 918
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 3.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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