Concerning the Phase of the Time-Variation in the Cl-36 Decay Rate

TL;DR

This paper explains conflicting observations of Cl-36 decay rate variations as effects of solar variability, emphasizing that these are not due to measurement errors but related to solar phenomena beyond simple Earth-Sun distance models.

Contribution

It demonstrates that solar variability influences decay rate measurements, providing a new understanding of the observed discrepancies in Cl-36 decay data.

Findings

Solar variability affects Cl-36 decay rates

Conflicting results are explained by solar effects, not instrumental errors

Decay rate variations correlate with solar activity patterns

Abstract

We show that apparently conflicting results on the time-variation of the measured Cl-36 decay rates can be readily understood as arising from solar variability beyond the simple Earth-Sun distance model, and hence are not an indication of instrumental effects.