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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: decay rates and temperature
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 10:00:04 EDT
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> > I don't know about affecting the decay RATE as such,
> > ...  so temperature can
> > have detectable effects on nuclear decay.

> Hmm...  I have a question about this.  It seems
> clear that the correlations are produced by correlations
> between the direction of emission and the direction of the
> magnetic moment of the nucleus.  Wouldn`t the temperature
> effects be due not to changes in the decay rate but from
> fluctuations in the alignment of the nucleii with the external
> field?

Yes, the H-dot-S effect.  I was careful to say this wasn't
the decay RATE.