https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2015-15191-4
Regular Article
Mössbauer experiments in a rotating system: Recent errors and novel interpretation
1
Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey
2
Savronik, Eskisehir, Turkey
3
Department of Physics, Belarus State University, Minsk, Belarus
4
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
* e-mail: alkholmetskii@gmail.com
Received:
22
July
2015
Revised:
26
August
2015
Accepted:
26
August
2015
Published online:
1
October
2015
We consider the energy shift between emission and absorption lines in the Mössbauer experiments in a rotating system in the view of a recently reported extra component of such a shift, in addition to the usual relativistic time dilation effect, expressed by the inequality k > 0.5 in the expression for the relative energy shift ΔE/E = −ku 2/c 2 (u is the orbital velocity, and c the light velocity in vacuum). We consider the recent attempts of re-interpretation of the Mössbauer rotor experiments, showing their incorrectness, and analyze the proposed explanations of the physical origin of this extra energy shift. This way we stress that the energy of nuclei located in crystal cells should be determined via relativistic quantum mechanics, involving the geometry of a rotating disc. We show that the standard theory yields k = 1/2; applying the YARK gravitational theory, we obtain k = 2/3 in a perfect agreement with experimental data.
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015
