Passing the boundary between the parity breaking medium and vacuum by vector particles

Abstract

The electrodynamics supplemented with a Chern-Simons (CS) action (Carrol-Field-Jackiw electrodynamics) in a half space is studied. The passage of photons and/or massive vector mesons through a boundary between the CS medium and the vacuum of conventional Maxwell electrodynamics is investigated. Effects of reflection from a boundary (up to the total one) are revealed when vector particles escape to vacuum and income from vacuum passing the boundary. Both the space-like and time-like CS vectors are considered.

Comments: Talk on IV International conference "Models in Quantum Field Theory" MQFT-2012: 24 - 27 September 2012, Peterhof, Russia. Submitted to Theor.Math.Phys, few typos corrected