The Case for a Solar Influence on Certain Nuclear Decay Rates (arxiv.org article)

Arxiv dot org ^ | Wed, 16 Jan 2013 | Sturrock, P. etal

[fishtank]

The Case for a Solar Influence on Certain Nuclear Decay Rates

Peter Sturrock, Ephraim Fischbach, Daniel Javorsek II, Jere Jenkins, Robert Lee

(Submitted on 16 Jan 2013)

Power-spectrum analyses of the decay rates of certain nuclides reveal (at very high confidence levels) an annual oscillation and periodicities that may be attributed to solar rotation and to solar r-mode oscillations. A comparison of spectrograms (time-frequency displays) formed from decay data and from solar neutrino data reveals a common periodicity with frequency 12.5 year-1, which is indicative of the solar radiative zone. We propose that the neutrino flux is modulated by the solar magnetic field (via Resonant Spin Flavor Precession) in that region, and we estimate the force and the torque that could be exerted on a nuclide by the solar neutrino flux.

Comments: Contributed to the 8th Patras Workshop on

Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, Chicago, July 18-22, 2012

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

Cite as: arXiv:1301.3754 [hep-ph] (or arXiv:1301.3754v1 [hep-ph] for this version)

Submission history

From: Peter A. Sturrock [view email]

[v1] Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:04:59 GMT (639kb)

[fishtank]

This is the most recent article I could find for the recent research into accelerated radioactive decay rates.

This is my judicious follow-up response to the post I did yesterday.

[fishtank]

http://axion-wimp2012.desy.de/sites/site_axion-wimp2012/content/e102827/e163767/Patras2012_Teilnehmer_med.jpg

[rickmichaels]

Is this available in English?

[Hegewisch Dupa]

so are you saying Schrodinger’s cat is more or less likely to buy it during peak solar activity???

[Hegewisch Dupa]

that’s the most guilty bunch I’ve seen outside the current administration....

[Texas Fossil]

Notice 3rd row far right.

[muawiyah]

He looks like the guy we used to send to do audits on porn publishers (they mail a lot of stuff). You had to intimidate those guys or they'd start parading around the room with sex toys and the like.

I'm guessing this guy talks to the budget folks about the cost of flux capacitors!

[Texas Fossil]

Yes, I know the type.

But,

Did you know that a “flux capacitor” is a real device?

It is a type of capacitor that can be created on LSI chips. I have a .pdf with an illistration of one. Thought it humorous when I discovered.

Can no longer find where I downloaded the pdf, but still have it on my hard drive.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Neutrinos are created as a result of certain types of radioactive decay, or nuclear reactions such as those that take place in the Sun, in nuclear reactors, or when cosmic rays hit atoms.

There are three types, or “flavors”, of neutrinos: electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos and tau neutrinos. Each type is associated with an antiparticle, called an “antineutrino”, which also has neutral electric charge and half-integer spin.

Most neutrinos passing through the Earth emanate from the Sun. About 65 billion (6.5×10x10) solar neutrinos per second pass through every square centimeter perpendicular to the direction of the Sun in the region of the Earth.

Very much like neutrons do in nuclear reactors, neutrinos can induce fission reactions within heavy nuclei. So far, this reaction has not been measured in a laboratory, but is predicted to happen within stars and supernovae. The process affects the abundance of isotopes seen in the universe.

[Colinsky]

Is this available in English?

The half-life of some radioactive elements changes depending on whether you measure it in January or in July. This evidence has not fit in well with the standard theory that half-lives are immutable.

This article posits that the variation in the flow of neutrinos from the Sun is causing the disparity. We're hit by a lot more solar neutrinos in January, when the Earth is three million miles closer to the Sun than in July.

[Ray76]

Wonder what the variation in the flow of neutrinos from the Sun is in Northern Hemisphere v Southern.

What consequences are there for radioactive dating?

[fuzzylogic]

So what is the impact of this? Carbon dating?

[Moonman62]

This is the most recent article I could find for the recent research into accelerated radioactive decay rates.

This article is about periodic decay rates, not accelerated.

[Cboldt]

The period in the article isn’t “per year,” is it “per 12.5 years,” so something other than the earth’s orbital trip around the sun is involved.

[RossA]

This is an absurd theory.

Neutrino production occurs in the center of the sun and the neutrinos leave the sun immediately. As opposed to the radiative energy which takes a long time (estimated at 1,000,000 years) to reach the surface of the sun. The solar cycle, though not well understood, is an end product of that 1,000,000 years of radiative heat circulation.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

I can’t picture a seasonal oscillation having an effect on long-term carbon dating

[Colinsky]

I can’t picture a seasonal oscillation having an effect on long-term carbon dating.

As I recall, the seasonal variations were found only in a few obscure isotopes of rare-earth elements. I haven't seen any reports of variations in the half-life of carbon-14.

[muawiyah]

Harmonics ~ simple math ~ it all comes out in the end. Which is to say if there's a 12.5 year cycle in the center of the Sun eventually there's a 12.5 year cycle on the surface, and then in the electromagnetic field around the Sun (and the Earth), and so on.

Kind of like all the young ladies in the WAVE barracks having periods at the same time!

[Hegewisch Dupa]

I’m not saying I’m not out over my skis here (I love that something as obscure as ski jumping provided us with a cliche), but over the time period typically analyzed with C14, so what if it goes up one season, down the next? Or even if that oscillation takes place over 12 and a half years - wouldn’t that all even out over any reasonable period of time?

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Analogy Police issue you not a ticket, nor a warning, but rather an award for Meritorious Service! Well done!!