On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote:
What I will now try to think about is seeing whether that energy might be > dumped instead into a nearby electron in the ambient electron cloud that > fills much of the volume of the metal. In this case, the daughter 4He > would be nearly motionless instead of fast, and you would get a electron on > the order of 24 MeV instead. > Does anyone (maybe Robin?) know enough about quantum mechanics to clarify whether it would be possible for the ~5.5 MeV in the case of p+d -> 3He + Q to be transferred to several electrons, rather than a single one? Is it necessary that the energy be transferred to a single target? Or can there be multiple recipients? Eric
