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Q McKnight1, S D Bergeson2, J Peatross1, M J Ware1.
Abstract
We report nearly continuous beta-decay-rate measurements of Na-22, Cl-36, Co-60, Sr-90, and Cs-137 over a period of 2.7 years using four Geiger-Müller tubes. We carefully control the ambient pressure and temperature for the detectors, sources, and electronics in order to minimize environmentally-dependent systematic drifts in the measurement chains. We show that the amplitudes of an annual oscillation in the decay rates are consistent with zero to within 0.004%.Entities:
Keywords: Beta decay; Decay constant; Decay rate variability; Half-life; Non-exponential decay; Nuclear decay rate measurements; Nuclear decays; Radioactivity
Year: 2018 PMID: 30273759 DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2018.09.021
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Appl Radiat Isot ISSN: 0969-8043 Impact factor: 1.513