Can the "Darmstadt oscillations" be treated as two closely spaced mass-eigenstates of the H-like mother ions ?
Abstract
We discuss the proposal that the "Darmstadt oscillations" of the orbital K-shell electron capture decay (EC) rate of the H-like heavy ions are caused by quantum beats of two coherently excited, closely spaced mass-eigenstates of decaying H-like heavy ions. We show that such a mechanism to explain the time modulation of the EC-decay rates of the H-like heavy ions leads to the time modulation of the beta^+ decay rate of these ions with the same period. Such a time-dependence of the beta^+ decay rate of the H-like heavy ions contradicts the experimental data of GSI.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- November 2008
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.0811.0922
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0811.0922
- Bibcode:
- 2008arXiv0811.0922F
- Keywords:
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- Nuclear Theory;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Nuclear Experiment;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 2 pages