Mossbauer Experiment in a Rotating System on the Time Dilation Effect

TL;DR

This paper reports on a Mössbauer experiment in a rotating system that reveals a deviation from the standard relativistic prediction of time dilation, suggesting potential new physics or effects in rotating frames.

Contribution

The study provides corrected data on the Mössbauer effect in rotation, showing a measurable deviation from the relativistic time dilation formula.

Findings

Measured energy shift deviates from relativistic prediction

Correction of data reduces vibration effects

Results indicate possible new effects in rotating systems

Abstract

We present results of Moessbauer experiment in a rotating system, which is induced by our recent disclosure (Phys. Scr., 77 (2008) 035302) and which consisted in the fact that a correct processing of Kundig experiment data on the subject gives an appreciable deviation of a relative energy shift dE/E between emission and absorption resonant lines from the standard prediction based on the relativistic dilation of time (that is dE/E=-v2/2c2 to the accuracy c-2, where v is the tangential velocity of absorber of resonant radiation, and c is the light velocity in vacuum). Namely, the Kundig result following the correction we brought to it, is dE/E=-(0.596+/-0.006)v2/c2. In our own experiment we carried out measurements for two absorbers with substantially different isomer shift, which allowed us to make a correction of Moessbauer data to a level of vibrations in the rotor system at various rotational frequencies. As a result we got the estimation dE/E=-(0.68+/-0.03)v2/c2. A deviation from the relativistic formula is discussed.