Cosmological Mass of the Photon Related to Stueckelberg and Higgs Mechanisms
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments and Suggestions for Authors The author provides a prescription based on the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the Einstein-de Sitter model of universe to connect the mass of $W^{\pm}$ or $Z^0$ gauge bosons and g-photons to cosmological scales. This procedure is applied to the Stueckelberg-Higgs mechanism. The author claims that his estimates may be detectable in accelerator experiments. The paper is interesting, well-written and well-documented. Its applications to particle physics are emphasized. I recommend it for publication in Particles after the following comments have been taken into account: 1. The topic of the paper is closely related to the paper: [a] P.H. Chavanis ``A mass scale law connecting cosmophysics to microphysics'' Phys. Dark Univ. 44, 101420 (2024) that should be quoted in addition to [3,4]. This paper brings a lot of information and references that would be of interest to the readers of ``Particles'' in complement to the references given by the author. 2. The neutrino mass scale (6) has been introduced independently in [4] and [a]. This should be acknowledged. 3. End of the conclusion: Is there a specific experiment in particle physics or astrophysics that could confirm the results of the author? That would be very interesting.
Author Response
March 12, 2024
Mr. Ethan Zhang
Managing Editor
Particles (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/particles)
Indexed by ESCI (IF 1.4), Scopus CiteScore: 3.3
Twitter: @Particles_MDPI
Dear Mr. Zhang:
I greatly appreciate the Review that you provided to my seminal paper on `Cosmological mass of the photon related to Stueckelberg and Higgs mechanisms,’ submitted to `Particles.’
I completely agree with all the comments and remarks provided by your Reviewer.
I correspondingly added an Appendix on `Mass Scale Laws’ that places my paper in the proper context of the overarching Review that Chavanis recently published in `Physics of the Dark Universe.’ I definitely concur with your Reviewer that my new Ref. [19] , quoting the paper on `A mass scale law connecting cosmophysics to microphysics,’ brings a vast amount of information and references that will be of major interest to readers of `Particles’ as well, in the context or complement of important References that I already provided.
I further agree with your Reviewer’s conclusion that would be very interesting to devise a specific experiment in particle physics or astrophysics that could confirm my results. But as your Reviewer most likely appreciates, I can hardly provide all that material to such extent at this time. I will certainly continue and try to do so in due course. Nevertheless, in the present context, I added or expanded the last three paragraphs of Sec. 3 to include the following:
(A) Experiments involving neutrino-electron scattering basically contain graphs that exchange one $Z^0$ or one $H$ neutral Bosons line between lepton propagators. In the KMcK theory that I further developed, a third basic diagram must be added to those, representing the exchange of a single massive $g$-photon line between neutrino-electron propagators. Though exceedingly small, that $g$-photon vertex interaction with neutrinos may eventually be detected, thus providing experimental evidence of the $g$-photon cosmological mass that I ultimately propose.
(B) Furthermore, astronomical observations of extremely dense $g$-BEC, acting as carriers of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, as I propose, may reveal a corresponding dimming or gravitational lensing of most distant objects.
In summary, I believe that this paper of mine may very well be the most seminal and important of my entire career. I equally believe that both you and your Reviewer will be please and satisfied with the concise additions and corrections that I made to my earlier submission, in response to your excellent Review.
Thank you very much for your consideration and please accept my best regards.
Sincerely,
Dr. Lorenzo G. Resca
Physics Professor
Department of Physics
The Catholic University of America
Author Response File: 
Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsPlease find the following comments in the attachments.
Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
March 12, 2024
Mr. Ethan Zhang
Managing Editor
Particles (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/particles)
Indexed by ESCI (IF 1.4), Scopus CiteScore: 3.3
Twitter: @Particles_MDPI
Dear Mr. Zhang:
I greatly appreciate the Review that you provided to my seminal paper on `Cosmological mass of the photon related to Stueckelberg and Higgs mechanisms,’ submitted to `Particles.’
I completely agree with all the comments and remarks provided by your Reviewer.
I correspondingly added an Appendix on `Mass Scale Laws’ that places my paper in the proper context of the overarching Review that Chavanis recently published in `Physics of the Dark Universe.’ I definitely concur with your Reviewer that my new Ref. [19] , quoting the paper on `A mass scale law connecting cosmophysics to microphysics,’ brings a vast amount of information and references that will be of major interest to readers of `Particles’ as well, in the context or complement of important References that I already provided.
I further agree with your Reviewer’s conclusion that would be very interesting to devise a specific experiment in particle physics or astrophysics that could confirm my results. But as your Reviewer most likely appreciates, I can hardly provide all that material to such extent at this time. I will certainly continue and try to do so in due course. Nevertheless, in the present context, I added or expanded the last three paragraphs of Sec. 3 to include the following:
(A) Experiments involving neutrino-electron scattering basically contain graphs that exchange one $Z^0$ or one $H$ neutral Bosons line between lepton propagators. In the KMcK theory that I further developed, a third basic diagram must be added to those, representing the exchange of a single massive $g$-photon line between neutrino-electron propagators. Though exceedingly small, that $g$-photon vertex interaction with neutrinos may eventually be detected, thus providing experimental evidence of the $g$-photon cosmological mass that I ultimately propose.
(B) Furthermore, astronomical observations of extremely dense $g$-BEC, acting as carriers of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, as I propose, may reveal a corresponding dimming or gravitational lensing of most distant objects.
In summary, I believe that this paper of mine may very well be the most seminal and important of my entire career. I equally believe that both you and your Reviewer will be please and satisfied with the concise additions and corrections that I made to my earlier submission, in response to your excellent Review.
Thank you very much for your consideration and please accept my best regards.
Sincerely,
Dr. Lorenzo G. Resca
Physics Professor
Department of Physics
The Catholic University of America
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThe author has given adequate explanation of each query. I recommend the publication in the present form.
