2.7 years of beta-decay-rate ratio measurements in a controlled environment

ORAL

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-Muller 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 zero with an uncertainty of 0.004%.

*This project was funded by a CHIRP grant from Brigham Young University.

Presenters

  • Quinton Dayle McKnight

    • Brigham Young Univ - Provo

Authors

  • Quinton Dayle McKnight

    • Brigham Young Univ - Provo
  • Scott Douglas Bergeson

    • Brigham Young Univ - Provo
    • Brigham Young University - Provo
    • Brigham Young University
  • Justin Bruce Peatross

    • Brigham Young Univ - Provo
    • Brigham Young Univ
  • Michael Ware

    • Brigham Young Univ - Provo