  In a recent comment [1], Armitage and Hu have suggested that our experiment
observing dichroism in angle resolved photoemission (ARPES) [2] could not be
conclusively interpreted as arising from time reversal symmetry breaking,
arguing that our observations are likely due to structural effects. The
concerns expressed by Armitage and Hu that our results could be due to a change
in the mirror plane are as important as they are obvious. In fact the first
part of their comment merely restates the results of Simon and Varma [3] about
the relationship and contrast of effects due to time reversal symmetry breaking
and those caused by crystallographic changes. In any test of time reversal
symmetry one must ensure that parity alone is not inducing the observed
changes. We have indeed considered this issue very carefully in the course of
our study [2] and it is precisely the lack of temperature dependent structural
changes significant enough to explain the magnitude of the observed dichroism
that forced us to conclude that time reversal symmetry breaking is the only
plausible explanation. Furthermore, recent experiments by Borisenko, et al. [4]
confirm that changes in the mirror plane are unmeasurably small.
