Nuclear decay parameter oscillations as possible signal of quantum-mechanical nonlinearity and emergent gravity

Abstract

Several experimental groups reported the evidence of multiple periodic modulations of nuclear decay constants which amplitudes are of the order .1% and periods of one year, 24 hours or about one month. We argue that such deviations from radioactive decay law can be described in nonlinear quantum mechanics framework, in which decay process obeys to nonlinear Shroedinger equation with Doebner-Goldin terms. Proposed corrections to Hamiltonian of quantum system interaction with gravitation field correspond to some emergent gravity theories, in particular, bilocal gravity model. Decay parameter variations under influence of Sun gravity, calculated in our model, agree well with experimental results for alpha-decay life-time oscillations of Polonium isotopes