New test of modulated electron capture decay of hydrogen-like 142Pm ions: Precision measurement of purely exponential decay
2019
Abstract An experiment addressing
electron capture(EC) decay of hydrogen-like Pm 60 + 142 ions has been conducted at the experimental storage ring (ESR) at GSI. The decay appears to be purely exponential and no modulations were observed. Decay times for about 9000 individual EC decays have been measured by applying the single-ion decay spectroscopy method. Both visually and automatically analysed data can be described by a single
exponential decaywith decay constants of 0.0126 ( 7 ) s − 1 for automatic analysis and 0.0141 ( 7 ) s − 1 for manual analysis. If a modulation superimposed on the
exponential decaycurve is assumed, the best fit gives a modulation amplitude of merely 0.019(15), which is compatible with zero and by 4.9 standard deviations smaller than in the original observation which had an amplitude of 0.23(4).
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