Experimental investigations of changes in the rate of beta decay of radioactive elements

Changes in the rate of the beta decay of radioactive elements whose periods are about 24 h and 27 d are detected on the basis of long-term investigations performed with the aid of scintillation and germanium-lithium gamma detectors. The use of the scintillation procedure yields results whose level of significance is much higher than 5%, while the procedure based on germanium-lithium detectors gives a more than 1% deviation from the average value of fluxes of gamma rays accompanying, for example, {sup 60}Co beta decay. With allowance for the rotation of the laboratory frame together with the Earth, deviations of the change in the rate of beta decay of radioactive elements single out three directions in the physical space.