2.7 years of beta-decay-rate ratio measurements in a controlled environment
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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.
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Presenters
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Quinton Dayle McKnight
- Brigham Young Univ - Provo