| This paper identifies and discusses serious errors in Hagelstein & Chaudhary’s deeply flawed criticism of the Widom-Larsen mechanism for increasing effective masses of surface plasmon electrons. In Widom, Srivastava & Larsen’s view, their claimed ‘problems’ with W-L theory were decisively refuted in this paper. Readers are strongly urged to read Hagelstein & Chaudhary’s paper, study the rebuttal, and then decide for themselves whether the asserted ‘issues’ were satisfactorily addressed by W-L authors. |
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