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| Title: | LOW-ENERGY NUCLEAR REACTIONS RESULTING AS PICOMETER INTERACTIONS WITH SIMILARITY TO K-SHELL ELECTRON CAPTURE | |
| DOI No: | 10.1142/9789812774354_0068 | |
| Source: | CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR SCIENCE (pp 822-837) | |
| Author(s): | H. HORA
University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia G. H. MILEY Fusion Studies Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA X. Z. LI Physics Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China J. C. KELLY School of Physics, Sydney University, Sydney 2006, Australia F. OSMAN University of Western Sydney, Penrith-South, NSW 1791, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Since the appeal by Brian Josephson at the meeting of the Nobel Laureates July 2004, it seems to be indicated to summarize the following serious, reproducible and confirmed observations on reactions of protons or deuterons incorporated in host metals such as palladium. Some reflections to Rutherford’s discovery of nuclear physics, the Cockroft–Oliphant discovery of anomalous low-energy fusion reactions and the chemist Hahn’s discovery of fission had to be included. Using gaseous atmosphere or discharges between palladium targets, rather significant results were seen e.g. from the “life after death” heat production of such high values per host atom that only nuclear reactions can be involved. This supports the earlier evaluation of neutron generation in fully reversible experiments with gas discharges hinting that a reasonable screening effect – preferably in the swimming electron layer – may lead to reactions at nuclear distances d of picometers with reaction probability times U of about megaseconds similar to the K-shell capture radioactivity. Further electrolytic experiments led to low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) where the involvement of pollution could be excluded from the appearance of very seldom rare earth elements. A basically new theory for DD cross-sections is used to confirm the picometer–megasecond reactions of cold fusion. Other theoretical aspects are given from measured heavy element distributions similar to the standard abundance distribution, SAD, in the Universe with consequences on endothermic heavy nuclei generation, magic numbers and to quark-gluon plasmas. | |
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