Purdue University (2015)

J.Heim

The Determination of the Half-Life of Si-32 and Time Varying Nuclear Decay

RADIOACTIVITY ³²Si(β^-); ³⁶Cl(β^-), (EC); measured half-life of ³²Si decay by counting for 6000 hours between June 2013 and June 2015, using the detector equipment and sources from the experiment by 1986Al10 at Brookhaven National Laboratory; deduced ratios of activities of ³²Si and ³⁶Cl, temporal variation in decay constants.