An Analysis of Apparent r-Mode Oscillations in Solar Activity, the Solar Diameter, the Solar Neutrino Flux, and Nuclear Decay Rates, with Implications Concerning the Solar Internal Structure and Rotation, and Neutrino Processes

Abstract

This article presents a comparative analysis of solar activity data, Mt Wilson diameter data, Super-Kamiokande solar neutrino data, and nuclear decay data acquired at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (LMSU). We propose that salient periodicities in all of these datasets may be attributed to r-mode oscillations. Periodicities in the solar activity data and in Super-Kamiokande solar neutrino data may be attributed to r-mode oscillations in the known tachocline, with normalized radius in the range 0.66 to 0.74, where the sidereal rotation rate is in the range 13.7 to 14.6 year-1. We propose that periodicities in the Mt Wilson and LMSU data may be attributed to similar r-mode oscillations where the sidereal rotation rate is approximately which we attribute to a hypothetical inner tachocline separating a slowly rotating core from the radiative zone. We also discuss the possible role of the RSFP (Resonant Spin Flavor Precession) process, which leads to estimates of the neutrino magnetic moment and of the magnetic field strength in or near the solar core.

15 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, Astroparticle Physics, accepted

References in corpus (5)

• Searching for modifications to the exponential radioactive decay law with the Cassini spacecraft
• Power Spectrum Analysis of Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Decay-Rate Data: Evidence for Solar Rotational Modulation
• Concerning the Phases of Annual Variations of Nuclear Decay Rates
• Further Evidence Suggestive of a Solar Influence on Nuclear Decay Rates
• Evidence for R-Mode Oscillations in Super-Kamiokande Solar Neutrino Data

Cited by in corpus (12)

• Neutrino Oscillations as a Probe of Light Scalar Dark Matter
• Indications of r-mode Oscillations in SOHO/MDI Solar Radius Measurements
• Analysis of Beta-Decay Rates for Ag108, Ba133, Eu152, Eu154, Kr85, Ra226 And Sr90, Measured at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt from 1990 to 1996
• Temporal evolutions and quasi-periodic variations present in the sunspot number and group sunspot area data measured at Kodaikanal Observatory for solar cycles 14 to 24
• Precision long-term measurements of beta-decay-rate ratios in a controlled environment
• Anomalies in Radioactive Decay Rates: A Bibliography of Measurements and Theory
• Search for Possible Solar Influences in Ra-226 Decays
• The Case for a Solar Influence on Certain Nuclear Decay Rates
• Generalized Lomb-Scargle analysis of ${}^{36}\mathrm{Cl}$ decay rate measurements at PTB and BNL
• Scaler rates from the Pierre Auger Observatory: a new proxy of solar activity
• Test of Nuclear Decay Rate Variation due to an Antineutrino Flux
• Generalized Lomb-Scargle analysis of ${}^{123}\mathrm{I}$ and ${}^{99m}\mathrm{Tc}$ decay rate measurements