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HOW CAN ONE PROBE PODOLSKY ELECTRODYNAMICS?
Fecha
2011-08-20Registro en:
International Journal of Modern Physics A. Singapore: World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd, v. 26, n. 21, p. 3641-3651, 2011.
0217-751X
10.1142/S0217751X11053961
WOS:000294309100005
Autor
Univ Alberta
Universidade Federal de Alfenas (UNIFAL)
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
Inst Fomento & Coordenacao Ind
Institución
Resumen
We investigate the possibility of detecting the Podolsky generalized electrodynamics constant a. First we analyze an ion interferometry apparatus proposed by B. Neyenhuis et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 200401 (2007)), who looked for deviations from Coulomb's inverse-square law in the context of Proca model. Our results show that this experiment has not enough precision for measurements of a. In order to set up bounds for a, we investigate the influence of Podolsky's electrostatic potential on the ground state of the Hydrogen atom. The value of the ground state energy of the Hydrogen atom requires Podolsky's constant to be smaller than 5.6 fm, or in energy scales larger than 35.51 MeV.