Absence of a self-induced decay effect in 198Au

Abstract

We report the results of an improved experiment aimed at determining whether the half-life ($T_{1/2}$) of ${}^{198}$Au depends on the shape of the source. In this experiment, the half-lives of a gold sphere and a thin gold wire were measured after each had been irradiated in the NIST Center for Neutron Research. In comparison to an earlier version of this experiment, both the specific activities of the samples and their relative surface/volume ratios have been increased, leading to an improved test for the hypothesized self-induced decay (SID) effect. We find T_1/2(sphere)/T_1/2(wire) = 0.9993+/-0.0002, which is compatible with no SID effect.

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