Visuals for the relativistic time dilation experiment by Reinhardt et al. (Nature Physics, November 11, 2007)

The core team: Gerald Gwinner (u.l.), Sergei Karpuk (u.r.),Sascha Reinhardt (l.l), and Guido Saathoff (l.r), and Christian Novotny taking the picture (click for hi-res version) (update)

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The core team: Gerald Gwinner (u.l.), Sergei Karpuk (u.r.),Sascha Reinhardt (l.l), and Christian Novotny (l.r), and Guido Saathoff taking the picture (click for hi-res version) (update)

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The laser beams enter the vacuum system of the storage ring (click for hi-res version) (update)

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Laser beams running across the optics table (click for hi-res version) (update)

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The vacuum pipe of the TSR storage ring (click for hi-res version) (update)

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One of the lasers used in the time dilation expt. (click for hi-res version) (update)

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The dye laser used in the time dilation experiment (click for hi-res version) (update)

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The dye laser used in the time dilation experiment (click for hi-res version) (update)

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The dye laser used in the time dilation experiment (click for hi-res version) (update)

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Dr. Guido Saathoff (serious guy) and Dr. Sergei Karpuk (smiling guy) tuning the lasers (click for hi-res version) (update)

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Dr. Guido Saathoff and Dr. Sergei Karpuk tuning the lasers (click for hi-res version) (update)

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Dr. Sergei Karpuk (serious guy)and Dr. Sascha Reinhardt (smiling guy) tuning the lasers (click for hi-res version) (update)

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PhD student Christian Novotny, Dr. Sergei Karpuk, Dr. Guido Saathoff, and Dr. Sascha Reinhardt in front of storage ring magnets (click for hi-res version) (update)

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Dr. Sascha Reinhardt and Dr. Guido Saathoff tuning the lasers (click for hi-res version) (update)

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Laser (click for hi-res version) (update)

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Dr. Sergei Karpuk and Dr. Sascha Reinhardt tuning lasers (click for hi-res version) (update)

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Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics (front, with city of Heidelberg, Germany in the background)



The TSR storage ring in Heidelberg, where the time dilation expt. was performed (click for hi-res version) (update)

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