Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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11026277 | Applied Radiation and Isotopes | 2018 | 7 Pages |
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%.
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Authors
Q. McKnight, S.D. Bergeson, J. Peatross, M.J. Ware,