Nuclear Data in Oklo and Time-Variability of Fundamental Coupling Constants

dc.creatorFujii, Yasunori
dc.creatorIwamoto, Akira
dc.creatorFukahori, Tokio
dc.creatorOhnuki, Toshihiko
dc.creatorNakagawa, Masayuki
dc.creatorHidaka, Hiroshi
dc.creatorOura, Yasuji
dc.creatorMoller, Peter
dc.date2002-05-19
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dc.descriptionWe re-examined Shlyakhter's analysis of the Sm data in Oklo. With a special care of minimizing contamination due to the inflow of the isotope after the end of the reactor activity, we confirmed that his result on the time-variability of the fine-structure constant, $|\dotα/α|\lsim 10^{-17}{\rm y}^{-1}$, was basically correct. In addition to this upper bound, however, we obtained another result that indicates a different value of $α$ 2 billion years ago. We add comments on the recent result from QSO's.
dc.description3 pages, 1 figure, presented at Int. Conf. on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, ND2001, 7-12 October, 2001, Tsukuba, Japan
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0205206
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0205206
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/41532
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectNuclear Theory
dc.titleNuclear Data in Oklo and Time-Variability of Fundamental Coupling Constants
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