EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF CHANGES IN β-DECAY RATE OF 60Co AND 137Cs

Abstract

Results of simultaneous measurements of β-decay rate with the aid of Ge(Li)-detectors performed at two laboratories 140 km apart (INR RAS, Troitsk, 60 Co , and JINR, Dubna, 137 Cs ) from 15 March 2000 to 10 April 2000 are presented. Regular deviations of the count rate of γ-quanta following the β-decay of ~0.7% (INR RAS, 60 Co ) and ~0.2% (JINR, 137 Cs ) from the statistical average, are observed. The analysis of extremum deviations of γ--quanta count rate shows that the set of directions of tangents to the Earth's parallels of latitude at the extremum points of trajectories of motion in the space of each laboratory clearly forms three separate compact subsets of directions which agree, for two laboratories, to an accuracy of ±10°. This phenomenon is shown not to be explained on the basis of traditional notion. A possible explanation is suggested based on the hypothesis that there exists a new anisotropic interaction caused by the cosmological vectorial potential Ag, a new fundamental constant having, according to the experiments carried out, the coordinate of right ascension α ≈ 285° in the second equatorial system. This is in agreement with earlier experiments.