Evidence of Neutrino Flux effect on Alpha Emission Radioactive Half-Life
Jonathan Walg, Anatoly Rodnianski, Itzhak Orion

TL;DR
This study presents evidence that neutrino flux variations from the Sun can influence the radioactive half-life of alpha emitters, challenging the notion that decay constants are immutable.
Contribution
The paper provides experimental evidence linking solar neutrino flux changes to variations in radioactive half-lives, a novel insight into decay process influences.
Findings
Radioactive half-lives show annual and solar flare-related variations.
Neutrino flux changes correlate with alterations in alpha emitter decay rates.
Experimental setup successfully detected delayed responses to solar flares.
Abstract
Radioactive sources presented annual periodical half-life changes in several accurate measurements, although customary practice claims that radioactive decay should be a physical constant for each radionuclide. Besides that, the Purdue measurements of Mn-54 decay-rates indicated response to solar X-ray flare events in 2006. The Mn-54 source emits neutrino from the nucleus and therefore allows interpreting those solar neutrinos can interact with this radiation source. In order to track more radiation count-rate responses to solar flare events, we built an experimental detector system for gamma radiation count-rates measurements, facing an Am-241 source. The system was placed at an underground laboratory, permanently locked to avoid any influence by unexpected radiation perturbations, and environmentally controlled in means of temperature and clean-air flow, in order to maintain detector…
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Taxonomy
TopicsRadioactive Decay and Measurement Techniques · Radioactivity and Radon Measurements · Neutrino Physics Research
