Anomalous fluctuations of s-wave reduced neutron widths of 192,194Pt resonances

Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Aug 13;105(7):072502. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.072502. Epub 2010 Aug 12.

Abstract

We obtained an unprecedentedly large number of s-wave neutron widths through R-matrix analysis of neutron cross-section measurements on enriched Pt samples. Careful analysis of these data rejects the validity of the Porter-Thomas distribution with a statistical significance of at least 99.997%.