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Halflife of 56Ni in cosmic rays

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A measurement of the 56Ni cosmic ray abundance has been discussed as a possible tool to determine the acceleration time scale of relativistic particles in cosmic rays. This conjecture will depend on the halflife of totally ionized 56Ni which can only decay by higher-order forbidden transitions. We have calculated this halflife within large-scale shell model calculations and find t 1/2≈ 4×104 years, only slightly larger than the currently available experimental lower limit, but too short for 56Ni to serve as a cosmic ray chronometer.

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  1. Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Ârhus, Denmark, , , , , , DK

    J. Lund Fisker, G. Martínez-Pinedo & K. Langanke

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Received: 23 February 1999

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Lund Fisker, J., Martínez-Pinedo, G. & Langanke, K. Halflife of 56Ni in cosmic rays . EPJ A 5, 229–231 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100500050277

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