2026-10-09 Texas A&M OAKTrust

URL: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/de5c0606-539f-4013-b946-f5e6258682d8/content Found via Google query: Jenkins Fischbach "decay rates" annual variation Sun claim Rutherford "independent of" external conditions.

Item: John Randall Goodwin, "Can environmental factors affect half-life in beta-decay? An analysis", PhD dissertation (Chemistry), Texas A&M University, December 2012, 106 pp.; co-chairs John C. Hardy and Rand Watson [web: URL above; title page seen in Chrome]. Google snippet: the standard view holds decay "independent of changes in external environment"; the thesis discusses the "annual variation of nuclear decay rates" claims. Access: opens in Chrome's PDF viewer; a script download received a Cloudflare "Just a moment..." page (saved as research/pages/oaktrust-goodwin-blocked.html), so no copy in files/. Not read. Bears on claim 7 (modern tests of whether decay rates can be changed), priority 3. Result: partial (located, not read). Recheck: yes (download through Chrome by the owner, or read in viewer).