TY - GEN
T1 - Axions and photons in terms of "particles" and "anti-particles"
AU - Guendelman, Eduardo I.
AU - Shilon, Idan
PY - 2008/12/1
Y1 - 2008/12/1
N2 - The axion photon system in an external magnetic field, when for example considered with the 1+1 geometry of the experiments exploring axion photon mixing displays a continuous axion-photon duality symmetry in the limit where the axion mass is neglected. The conservation law that follows from this symmetry is obtained. The magnetic field interaction is seen to be equivalent to first order to the interaction of a complex charged field with an external electric potential, where this fictitious "electric potential" is proportional to the external magnetic field. Generalizing the scalar QED formalism to 2+1 dimensions makes it clear that a photon and an axion split into two components in an inhomogeneous magnetic field.
AB - The axion photon system in an external magnetic field, when for example considered with the 1+1 geometry of the experiments exploring axion photon mixing displays a continuous axion-photon duality symmetry in the limit where the axion mass is neglected. The conservation law that follows from this symmetry is obtained. The magnetic field interaction is seen to be equivalent to first order to the interaction of a complex charged field with an external electric potential, where this fictitious "electric potential" is proportional to the external magnetic field. Generalizing the scalar QED formalism to 2+1 dimensions makes it clear that a photon and an axion split into two components in an inhomogeneous magnetic field.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84880493171
SN - 9783935702263
T3 - Proceedings of the 4th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, PATRAS 2008
SP - 133
EP - 136
BT - Proceedings of the 4th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, PATRAS 2008
T2 - 4th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, PATRAS 2008
Y2 - 18 June 2008 through 21 June 2008
ER -