From: Eric Walker * * If you provide several balanced reactions that involve mesons, pions and muons, I can take them as a model and attempt to generalize.
For all practical purposes in LENR – we can ignore all mesons and pions and focus solely on the muon. See the Wiki entry for details. The lifetime of any variety of pion or meson is at least 100 times shorter than the muon and they are not known to catalyze fusion due to the simple reason that they decay too rapidly. The muon lifetime is relatively ample at that dimension, although short from the human perspective - and everyone in nuclear physics agrees that in the proper circumstances, muons can and do catalyze fusion reactions of deuterons in the range of a hundred or so per lifetime. This is not possible with pions or mesons due to either short life. Jones
