https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1596-3
Comment
Comment on: “Lorentz violation in high-energy ions” by Santosh Devasia
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Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, 85748, Garching, Germany
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Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69029, Heidelberg, Germany
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Institut für Physik, Universität Mainz, 55099, Mainz, Germany
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Institut für Kernchemie, Universität Mainz, 55099, Mainz, Germany
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Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GSI, 64291, Darmstadt, Germany
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Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Winnipeg, Canada
* e-mail: guido.saathoff@mpq.mmpg.de
Received:
14
January
2011
Published online:
17
March
2011
In an article “Lorentz violation in high-energy ions” by S. Devasia published in this Journal [EPJ C 69, 343 (2010)], our recent Doppler shift experiments on fast ion beams are reanalyzed. Contrary to our analysis, Devasia concludes that our results provide an “indication of Lorentz violation”. We argue that this conclusion is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of our experimental scheme and reiterate that our results are in excellent agreement with Special Relativity.
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