Photon deflection by a Coulomb field in noncommutative QED
arXiv:hep-ph/0410120 · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/30/12/B01
Abstract
In noncommutative QED photons present self-interactions in the form of triple and quartic interactions. The triple interaction implies that, even though the photon is electrically neutral, it will deflect when in the presence of an electromagnetic field. If detected, such deflection would be an undoubted signal of noncommutative space-time. In this work we derive the general expression for the deflection of a photon by any electromagnetic field. As an application we consider the case of the deflection of a photon by an external static Coulomb field.
07 pages, some typos corrected, accepted for publication in JPG