Neutron decay is exothermic, but the stripping reaction itself - where the
neutron is separated from deuterium involves kinetic energy depletion - so
yes, the net reaction is not necessarily gainful unless the kinetic energy
of the deuteron is supplied in a gainful way, or unless the bond energy is
depleted - such as in the nanocavity using a mechanism related to Casimir -
cavity QM or spin coupling.
The free neutron mass is slightly larger than that of a proton. The lifetime
is about 15 minutes.
939.565378 MeV compared to 938.272046 MeV would be the standard values.
This is why the Oppenheimer Philips (stripping) reaction could be extremely
important to LENR and it has been almost neglected in the past.
It should be noted that in the parallel thread on vortex today (Magnetic
permeability and LENR) that energy depletion of the deuteron, in the nickel
cavity due to spin coupling, could lower the binding energy so that the OP
effect happens at a much lower threshold than usual.
From: H Veeder
Going from D to H should be endothermic.
Harry
I will upload this version this morning and then go back to
yesterday's version and replace the Japanese text in some of the graphs
later on.
Thanks to Jed from all of us ! This is most informative, and possibly it is
the most important single document in the LENR field to date.
For vorticians on the far-fringe, slide 54 could be the most important
information in this presentation. Mizuno says
Gas of M/e=2 (2D or H2+) appears to be the final product.
And the obvious interpretation, since monatomic deuterium is almost
impossible to justify is that after the long run, with massive excess energy
above chemical - what is left in the reactor is an increased pressure of
hydrogen gas, when deuterium was the starting gas. Thus the gain derives
from deuterium stripping - but not to helium. And the pressure increase
could mean that some of the neutrons which are stripped are decaying back to
hydrogen providing more actual molecules of gas than was present at the
start !
This is inconsistent with the final product of fusion
reactions, which is "known to be" 4He.
Thus, Mizuno is telling us that the traditional explanation for gain, which
is deuterium transmuting to helium - GOING BACK 24 YEARS is WRONG. There is
no other way to state it.
Sorry for the caps, and the amazement of this conclusion - but this could be
HUGE in the big picture, since this is perhaps the most important experiment
in the field in many years in terms of length of run, net gain, quality of
instrumentation, and thoroughness.
More on further implications of the discovery that deuterium in not
transmuting to helium, later.
