| Title: | NUTS AND BOLTS OF THE ION BAND STATE THEORY |
| DOI No: | 10.1142/9789812701510_0067 |
| Source: | CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR SCIENCE (pp 735-751)
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| Author(s): | SCOTT R. CHUBB
Research Systems, INC, 9822 Pebble Weigh Ct., Burke, VA 22015-3378, USA
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| Abstract: | The nuts and bolts of our ion band state theory of low energy nuclear reactions (LENR’s) in palladium-deuteride (PdD) and palladium-hydride (PdH) are the electrons that hold together or tear apart the bonds (or lack of bonds) between deuterons (d’s) or protons (p’s) and the host material. In PdDx and PdHx, this bonding is strongly correlated with loading. In ambient loading conditions (x ≲ 0.6), bonding inhibits ion band state occupation. As x → 1, slight increases and decreases in loading can induce “vibrations” (which have conventionally been thought to occur from phonons) that can induce potential losses or increases of p/d. Naive assumptions about phonons fail to include these losses and increases. These effects can occur because neither H or D has core electrons and because in either PdD or PdH, the electrons near the Fermi energy have negligible overlap with the nucleus of either D or H. In the past, implicitly, we have used these facts to justify our ion band state theory. Here, we present a more formal justification, based on the relationship between H(D) ion band states (IBS’s) and H(D) phonons that includes a microscopic picture that explains why occupation of IBS’s can occur in PdD and PdH and how this can lead to nuclear reactions. |
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