Transmutation of neutrons into protons is consistent with the posit that p-mesons are catalyzed out of a degenerate vacuum forced by the application of extreme magnetic fields.
for reference: *The **P **and **A **mesons in strong abelian magnetic field in SU(2) lattice gauge theory.* http://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.5699.pdf On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > >
