The self-induced charge current in the experiments detecting photon rest mass

Abstract

This note considers two related topics regarding the {\it self-induced charge current} in the experiments detecting photon rest mass: (i) the effective rest mass, $(0.3\sim 1)\times 10^{-54}$ Kg, of photons arising from the ions in the secondary cosmic ray is compared to Luo {\it et al.}'s new upper limit on photon rest mass ($1.2\times 10^{-54}$ Kg); (ii) there are two main classes of experiments to detect photon rest mass based respectively on the Ampère-Maxwell-Proca equation and the Lagrangian (or Hamiltonian) density of electromagnetically interacting system.

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