Reply to 'Comment for "Limits on a nucleon-nucleon monopole-dipole (axionlike) P,T-noninvariant interaction from spin relaxation of polarized He-3" [arXiv:0912.4963], by A.P. Serebrov'

TL;DR

This paper refutes a previous critique by clarifying errors in collision frequency calculations and misunderstandings of the methods used to constrain short-range spin-dependent interactions in polarized helium-3 experiments.

Contribution

It provides a detailed rebuttal to a criticism, correcting calculation errors and clarifying the methodology for setting constraints on axion-like interactions.

Findings

The criticism was based on an elementary error in collision frequency calculation.

Misunderstanding of the method used in prior work led to incorrect conclusions.

Clarification supports the validity of previous constraints on spin-dependent interactions.

Abstract

It is shown, that criticism, presented in [arXiv:0912.4963], is based on an elementary error in the calculation of the collision frequency of an atom in a gas with walls of a container and misunderstanding of the method used in [arXiv:0902.1682v2] for obtaining constraints on new short-range spin-dependent interactions.