I do not agree that energetic alphas are consistent with the stability of
nano systems. They cause to much damage to the lattice and would destroy a
coherent system. And for this reason I do not believe they happen in LENR,
at least the systems that can run for a long time. However, if the LENR
reaction is in a liquid metal and not the lattice, then there is not lattice
damage or it heals quickly.
It would be interesting to know if liquid metal systems can constitute a
coherent quantum system like a crystalline metal lattice does or may?
Bob
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Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Probability Enhancement via SPP
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sun, 22 Mar 2015 08:11:00 -0700:
Hi,
[snip]
From there on, the details of how the expected bremsstrahlung can be
completely downshifted require "illumination". but the missing mechanism
may have been hidden in plain view, all along. This premise is easily
falsifiable.
You get very little bremsstrahlung from alpha particles. They are about 8000
times heavier than an electron, and consequently move much more slowly. The
higher (and positive) charge also tends to keep them away from other nuclei
(where bremsstrahlung is produced).
You will get some gammas from nuclei that are excited by alpha particle
bombardment, and some x-rays from inner-orbital electrons that are knocked
free,
and also some bremsstrahlung from the electrons that are knocked free, but
all
of this will be but a small fraction of what you would have seen if the
energy
had been initially carried by electrons rather than alpha particles.
Most of the alpha particle energy goes into ionizing valence electrons,
which
upon recombination only yield on the order of 10-100 eV each, so most of the
MeV
energy of the alphas is rapidly "degraded" to many 10-100 eV quanta. This is
in
the range of UV to soft x-rays.
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
