Biophotons -- new experimental data and analysis
Abstract
Biophotons are an ultra-weak emission of photons in the visible energy range from living matter. In this work, we study the emission from germinating seeds using an experimental technique designed to detect light of extremely small intensity. The emission from lentil seeds and single bean was analyzed during the whole germination process in terms of both the different spectral components through low pass filters and the different count distributions in the various stages of the germination process. Although the shape of the emission spectrum appears to be very similar in the two samples used in our experiment, our analysis is able to highlight the differences present in the two cases. In this way, it was possible to correlate the various types of emissions to the degree of development of the seed during germination.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2305.09524,
title = {Biophotons -- new experimental data and analysis},
author = {M. Benfatto and E. Pace and I. Davoli and Massimiliano Lucci and R. Francini and Fabio De Matteis and Alessandro Scordo and Alberto Clozza and Maurizio Grandi and C. Curceanu and P. Grigolini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.09524},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
18 pages including references, 8 figures, this work has been presented to the DCP22 held in 2022 in Pisa