RE: [Vo]:Article: Dirt Cheap Muon Detector Puts Particle Physics Within DIY Reach

[Jones Beene]

Speaking of muons, here is an off-the-wall observation about the 
cross-connection of LENR with “ultra-dense hydrogen”… via an internally 
borrowed lepton which happens to be of the correct mass-energy value. It avoids 
most of the problems of finding a nuclear nexus for the energy gain in LENR, 
but notably it is not Millsean, even though the gain comes from an electron 
orbital - as opposed to coming directly from the nucleus.
Unlike the Mills version of step-wise Rydberg progression in ground state 
redundancy, this reaction would happen in one jump from a bare proton to a 
compact atom with a ground state which is near 200 × (−13.6 eV ) ≈ −2.72keV. 
This is based on mass energy of the muon being a factor of 200x the Bohr 
electron. Also, unlike Mills model, the energy gain happens NOT on the 
formation of the dense species, but on its decay. 
The leap-of-faith is that resonant k-shell electrons in metals like palladium 
can become a muon-equivalent species which is captured by a bare deuteron. On 
decay, it would be replaced in an Augur cascade, as in the Mossbauer effect. 
The “signature” wavelength of a photon emitted in a transition between the 
first excited state and the ground state would be ≈ 2.04 keV, the wavelength of 
which is ≈ 0.6 nm. This value is the key to falsifiability. The Mossbauer  
effect offers many similarities.
If a photon and Augur cascade originating at 2 keV can be documented in LENR -- 
then it is almost a slam dunk that this hypothesis is at least partly accurate. 
Executive summary: UDH/UDD is identical to muonic hydrogen, but is a species 
which is not generated from muons per se. Instead the dense atom results from a 
proton or deuteron progressing into the electron shell of a host metal and 
resonantly appropriating a k-shell electron from the metal in which the 
hydrogen is dissolved (i.e palladium or nickel etc). 
In short, the muon is literally a nearly relativistic electron (200 x heavier) 
and if we take that description as being completely accurate as a plateau of 
stability, and also consider that many heavy elements like palladium have 
relativistic electrons near that value, and mash that up with the known 
mass-increase of electrons nearing lightspeed and mash all of it up with the 
known features of muonic-hydrogen, occurring naturally via muon capture, then 
what comes out of the blender is indeed a new understanding of “ultra-dense 
hydrogen” in which the relativistic electron from a heavy metal catalyst has 
assumed muon identity (as a value of mass-energy) without ever actually 
becoming a free muon.
This is not a trivial semantic issue. Has Holmlid or anyone in the past 
proposed the exact and complete cross-identity of UDH with self-generated 
muonic hydrogen? If so, my apology for missing it.

RE: [Vo]:Article: Dirt Cheap Muon Detector Puts Particle Physics Within DIY Reach

[Jones Beene]

Make that 10,000/m^2/sec according to Wiki… 

 

Correction – the standard muon flux 10,000/m^2 at sea level – so the flux is 
based on a square meter and the box looks to be far less area – so it could be 
perhaps 10-20% efficient.

From: Jack Cole 

Ø   Dirt Cheap Muon Detector Puts Particle Physics Within DIY Reach  
http://flip.it/0.QD-k

This device is seeing one muon per second at sea level in Boston. The actual 
flux is about 150 per second, so the detector is less than 1% efficient. It 
would be most interesting for Hagelstein/Swartz  to borrow one of them - so as 
to place a detector near an experiment which is known to produce excess heat. 
This begs to be done.

And the normal muon flux makes the Holmlid claims of laser irradiation, which 
are apparently producing 100,000 times greater muon flux, all the more 
impressive – if true. Even if Holmlid’s detector is 100% efficient, the results 
are extremely impressive.

This could explain why a LENR device, if muons are being produced, can have no 
apparent thermal gain at times … assuming muons are a type of energy release 
which happen irregularly, along with other kinds of energy release. The muons 
have a long life (relatively speaking) and would decay tens of meters away from 
the experiment, and be missed normally. 

RE: [Vo]:Article: Dirt Cheap Muon Detector Puts Particle Physics Within DIY Reach

[Jones Beene]

Correction – the standard muon flux 10,000/m^2 at sea level – so the flux is 
based on a square meter and the box looks to be far less area – so it could be 
perhaps 10-20% efficient.

From: Jack Cole 

Ø   Dirt Cheap Muon Detector Puts Particle Physics Within DIY Reach  
http://flip.it/0.QD-k

This device is seeing one muon per second at sea level in Boston. The actual 
flux is about 150 per second, so the detector is less than 1% efficient. It 
would be most interesting for Hagelstein/Swartz  to borrow one of them - so as 
to place a detector near an experiment which is known to produce excess heat. 
This begs to be done.

And the normal muon flux makes the Holmlid claims of laser irradiation, which 
are apparently producing 100,000 times greater muon flux, all the more 
impressive – if true. Even if Holmlid’s detector is 100% efficient, the results 
are extremely impressive.

This could explain why a LENR device, if muons are being produced, can have no 
apparent thermal gain at times … assuming muons are a type of energy release 
which happen irregularly, along with other kinds of energy release. The muons 
have a long life (relatively speaking) and would decay tens of meters away from 
the experiment, and be missed normally. 

Re: [Vo]:Article: Dirt Cheap Muon Detector Puts Particle Physics Within DIY Reach

[Bob Higgins]

It is an interesting design using a solid state photomultiplier, but really
it is a charged particle + gamma detector with no discrimination.  It is
listed as detecting cosmogenic muons because they are the most likely
cosmic ray detection at the surface of the Earth.

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Jack Cole  wrote:

> Dirt Cheap Muon Detector Puts Particle Physics Within DIY Reach
>
> http://flip.it/0.QD-k
>

RE: [Vo]:Article: Dirt Cheap Muon Detector Puts Particle Physics Within DIY Reach

[Jones Beene]

From: Jack Cole 

*   Dirt Cheap Muon Detector Puts Particle Physics Within DIY Reach  
http://flip.it/0.QD-k


This device is seeing one muon per second at sea level in Boston. The actual 
flux is about 150 per second, so the detector is less than 1% efficient. It 
would be most interesting for Hagelstein/Swartz  to borrow one of them - so as 
to place a detector near an experiment which is known to produce excess heat. 
This begs to be done.

And the normal muon flux makes the Holmlid claims of laser irradiation, which 
are apparently producing 100,000 times greater muon flux, all the more 
impressive – if true. Even if Holmlid’s detector is 100% efficient, the results 
are extremely impressive.

This could explain why a LENR device, if muons are being produced, can have no 
apparent thermal gain at times … assuming muons are a type of energy release 
which happen irregularly, along with other kinds of energy release. The muons 
have a long life (relatively speaking) and would decay tens of meters away from 
the experiment, and be missed normally.