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Thermal effects on the photon mass
Phys. Rev. D 27, 1393 – Published 15 March, 1983
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.27.1393
Abstract
It is shown that processes of in which the photon interacts indirectly with the thermal neutrino background dominate electric screening at low temperature. The photon electric mass still comes out to be much smaller than the present experimental limit.
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