| Title: | CATALYTIC FUSION AND THE INTERFACE BETWEEN INSULATORS AND TRANSITION METALS |
| DOI No: | 10.1142/9789812772985_0049 |
| Source: | CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR SCIENCE (pp 473-481)
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| Author(s): | TALBOT A. CHUBB
Greenwich Corp., 5023 N. 38th St., Arlington, VA 22207, USA
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| Abstract: | Cold fusion uses a catalyzed configuration change to replace plasma fusion's need for high-energy particle collisions.1 In radiationless cold fusion, the configuration change is a coherent partitioning of deuterons into fractional pieces within a set of potential wells provided by a hosting lattice.2 The coherently partitioned matter distribution is a Bloch wave function. Alpha addition transmutations3 require active deuterium in the form of Bloch function deuterons with 2-dimensional periodic symmetry.4,5 The configuration change to Bloch form has been modeled as occurring in the interface volume between a salt and Pd metal. In Arata and Zhang radiationless cold fusion6–8 reactive deuterons are modeled by Bloch ions with 3-dimensional periodic symmetry hosted in metallic nano crystals.5 The nano crystals are isolated by salt-metal interfaces. In both cases, the fusion process is modeled as a Li–Feshbach resonance transition to an excited nucleus state, with subsequent energy transfer to a metal lattice by phonon cascade.5 The lattice structure of the deuterons is preserved in the product nucleus until the energy transfer is completed. For the 2-dimensional symmetry case, the intermediate nucleus or many-body nuclear system can sometimes be observed in "flake" lattice form, providing insight about the process.5 Research on salt-metal interfaces could facilitate cold fusion technology. |
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