Concerning the variability of beta-decay measurements
Nuclear Experiment
2015-10-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Many experiments have been carried out to study the beta-decay rates of a variety of nuclides, and many - but not all - of these experiments yield evidence of variability of these rates. While there is as yet no accepted theory to explain patterns in the results, a number of conjectures have been proposed. We discuss three prominent conjectures (which are not mutually exclusive) - that variability of beta-decay rates may be due to (a) environmental influences, (b) solar neutrinos, and (c) cosmic neutrinos. We find evidence in support of each of these conjectures.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1510.05996,
title = {Concerning the variability of beta-decay measurements},
author = {P. A. Sturrock and E. Fischbach and A. Parkhomov and J. D. Scargle and G. Steinitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.05996},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
12 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables