https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2006-10212-8
Regular Article - Nuclear Structure and Reactions
The 198Au βhalf-life in the metal Au⋆
1
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
2
Experimentalphysik III, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
3
Chinese Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
4
Dynamitron-Tandem-Laboratorium, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
5
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università Federico II and INFN, Napoli, Italy
6
Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
* e-mail: rolfs@ep3.rub.de
Received:
12
November
2006
Accepted:
23
January
2007
Published online:
8
February
2007
For the β--decay of 198Au in a Au metallic environment the half-life was observed to be longer by 0.4±0.7% at room temperature (T = 293K) and by 4.0±0.7% when the metal was cooled to T = 12K, both compared to the literature value of T 1/2 = 2.6943±0.0008d.
PACS: 26.20.+f Hydrostatic stellar nucleosynthesis – / 27.30.+t 20 ⩽ A ⩽ 38 – / 21.10.Tg Lifetimes –
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag, 2007
