| Title: | III. BLOCH NUCLIDES, IWAMURA TRANSMUTATIONS, AND ORIANI SHOWERS |
| DOI No: | 10.1142/9789812774354_0055 |
| Source: | CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR SCIENCE (pp 685-693)
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| Author(s): | TALBOT A. CHUBB
Greenwich Corp., 5023 N. 38th St., Arlington, VA 22207, USA
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| Abstract: | The Iwamura et al. 2-α addition transmutations1 and the Oriani–Fisher energetic particle showers2 demand an explanation. They both depend on the same physics as responsible for cold fusion, namely the phase-coherent partitioning of deuteron charge when the deuteron assumes a Bloch-like form and becomes distributed among a large number Nwell of potential wells. As a result, the work required to bring the two “nuclei” into contact is reduced by 1/Nwell. In cold fusion 2 spin-zero paired deuterons fuse as per
In the Iwamura process  fuse as per
in a Bloch-sensitive reaction where reaction energy Enuc is a function of Nwell. Deuteron cold fusion is not Bloch sensitive because the reaction changes the coordinate exchange symmetry pairing. A Bloch-sensitive fusion product is mobilized to seek a larger number of hosting wells. This causes  to migrate to a surface where Cs+ ions protruding above the surface are overlapped. They add the  product in an exothermic reaction. In an Oriani process the  detaches from its hosting surface, dissolves, forms clusters, and gets suspended in off-gases as a flake nucleus with 2-dimensional periodic symmetry. Its geometry and internal nuclear excitation spectrum cause a normally forbidden energy transfer from gas to flake, until the increasingly energized  fissions into a pair of MeV alpha particles. |
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