TITLE:
Gauge Invariant Massive Long Range and Long Lived Photons
AUTHORS:
Golden Gadzirayi Nyambuya
KEYWORDS:
Gauge Invariance, Massive Photon, Proca Electrodynamics, Unified Field Theory
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Modern Physics,
Vol.5 No.17,
November
25,
2014
ABSTRACT: Prevailing
and conventional wisdom holds that intermediate gauge Bosons for long range
interactions such as the gravitational and electromagnetic interactions must be
massless as is assumed to be the case for the photon which mediates the
electromagnetic interaction. We have argued in a different reading that it
should in-principle be possible to have massive photons. The problem of
whether or not these photons will lead to short or long range interactions has
not been answered. Naturally, because these photons are massive, one would
without much pondering and excogitation on the matter assume that these photons
can only take part in short range interactions. Contrary to this and to
conventional wisdom; via a subtlety—namely, the foregoing of the Lorenz
gauge and in line with ideas set out in out proposed Unified Field Theory,
the introduction of a vector potential whose components are 4 ×4 Hermitian matrices; we show within the confines of
Proca Electrodynamics under the said modifications that massive photons should
be long lived (i.e., stable) and be able to take part in long range
interactions without any problem.