Bob,
Axil is correct in that the Be-8 and He-4 cannot project large spin energy transfer. It does not help that spin can be anti-parallel when it is based on 0 spin particles to begin with (they would not decay if that was the case) … however… There is an interesting isotope of helium, generally neglected- which is indeed a high-spin halo nucleus – He-6. The isotope has been overlooked in LENR - but is so important in physics that a book has been written about it. “A Cluster Model of Helium-6 and Lithium-6” by Jeremy Robert Armstrong - Michigan State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2007 - 372 pages. Obviously the focus is cosmology, but the fact that this high spin isotope is known physics is important. Helium-6 is short-lived with a sub-second lifetime, but it is a borromean system, and thus is remarkably stable for such a high spin nucleus, and could convert back to lithium-6 after it has transferred MeV of spin energy to magnons without the timing problems faced by Hagelstein’s magic phonons. http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Cluster_Model_of_Helium_6_and_Lithium.html?id=8MBxqPpWAF8C I think this idea of spin energy transfer from Lithium-6 <-> Helium-6 in a reversible reaction powered by the strong force – and possibly even completely divorced from the nuclear fusion reaction, could actually be salvaged -- by the basic idea that lithium converts to high spin helium, and then back. Lithium-6 is a singularity in many ways. BUT, correspondingly, the helium at the start is not Li-7, as Cook and Rossi claim – it is Li-6. In fact the Rossi premise is looking so bad that it is completely unsalvageable. The Lugano isotope data, even if it could be believed, completely negates the entire scenario since Li-7 is NOT depleted according to the Lugano report - but instead is converted to Li-6. However, a novel QCD reaction where Li-6 <-> He-6 oscillate in a reversible reaction, powered by the strong force, is worth pursuing – as it can provide spin energy to magnons at the expense of gluon mass. It’s too bad that Armstrong’s book on the above topic is not available as an ebook. It could be important to the idea that spin energy without high energy radiation, is the key to understanding this type of reaction. From: Bob Cook Two particles spinning anti-parallel equal 0 spin if they each have an equal spin energy. Angular momentum is a vector quantity, not a scalar one. From: Axil Axil <mailto:[email protected]> I don't get it. 8Be has zero nuclear spin and 4He has zero nuclear spin. How can a nuclear reaction involving them have huge annular momentum?
