EXPERIMENTS ON CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR EVENTS IN KOBE UNIVERSITY

Title:

EXPERIMENTS ON CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR EVENTS IN KOBE UNIVERSITY

DOI No:

10.1142/9789812774354_0016

Source:

CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR SCIENCE (pp 218-227)

Author(s):

T. MINARI
Division of Environmental Energy Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, 5-1-1 Fukaeminami-machi, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-0022, Japan
R. NISHIO
Division of Environmental Energy Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, 5-1-1 Fukaeminami-machi, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-0022, Japan
A. TANIIKE
Division of Environmental Energy Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, 5-1-1 Fukaeminami-machi, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-0022, Japan
Y. FURUYAMA
Division of Environmental Energy Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, 5-1-1 Fukaeminami-machi, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-0022, Japan
A. KITAMURA
Division of Environmental Energy Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, 5-1-1 Fukaeminami-machi, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-0022, Japan

Abstract:

We review three kinds of experimental works underway in our laboratory to investigate nuclear events in solid or liquid materials. The largest effort has been given to experiments to confirm the ⁷Li(d, n2α) reaction rate enhancement reaching 10¹⁵ in liquid lithium which was reported by H. Ikegami and R. Pettersson, Evidence of Enhanced Nonthermal Nuclear Fusion (Bulletin of Institute of Chemistry, BENF No. 3, Uppsala University, Sweden, September 2002). Li liquid droplets are formed as targets, and to keep them as pure as possible, we built a liquid Li loop. Thus far, in all cases of irradiation at the temperature from 520 to 570 K with 10–24 keV deuterons, we have not been able to reproduce the Ikegami enhancement for the ⁷Li(d, n2α) reaction.

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