Jones Beene
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:43:22 -0700
--- Robin: > This means two fast alphas, with equal energy, and opposite momentum, and presumably no gammas. On first read, that is simply impossible, Robin, unless I am missing something. The nature of fast alphas is to create copious gammas on interaction with condensed matter. Unless by "fast" you mean under roughly 100 keV. Otherwise there should be gammas. There would be essentially no difference between fast alphas derived from fusion, and alphas of the same mass-energy from an accelerator. Can you imagine alphas from an accelerator hitting a target without gammas? Or if I am mistaken, what would be the difference between the two examples ? Jones