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The Oklo bound on the time variation of the fine-structure constant revisited
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“In particular this analysis (Damour and Dyson 1996) showed that the Bethe-Weiza ¨cker formula overestimates by about a factor the 2 the a EM -sensitivity to the resonance energy.”
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“It follows from this analysis that a EM DE r Da EM ' À1:1 MeV:ð164Þ”
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- Authors
- Damour, T., & Dyson, F.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Princeton University (US)
- ORCID
- Damour, Thibault
- Venue
- Nuclear Physics B
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1996-11
- Volume
- 480
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 37-54
- ISSN
- 0550-3213 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2074946325
- Cited by
- 374
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- 33
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- FWCI
- 4.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
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- Nuclear Physics B (publishedVersion)
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- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Ambrose Monell Foundation
- Nuclear Physics
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Nuclear physics research studies
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Advanced Mathematical Theories and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Keywords
- fine-structure constant variation, alpha variation, rare earth isotopes, isotope shift
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