Robin--
I doubt your assumption about the size of the excited He* entity is correct.
It would have a distorted shape with the high angular momentum. It's outer
reach may extend far into the surrounding electron cloud and only return to
the lesser size of a photon upon loss of its spin energy. I am not sure
what the Pauli UP has to say about angular momentum/spin energy relative to
location parameters. I am assuming that the extent of the He* wave
function is the effective size of that entity at any current quantum spin
state.
Bob
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Andrea Rossi
In reply to Bob Cook's message of Tue, 7 Apr 2015 22:57:00 -0700:
Hi,
Eric--
One additional idea.
What we have been considering is the formation of 8Be and its decay into
two alpha particles with only spin energy involved.
As I have suggested before, two anti-parallel spin He* particles may form
in adjacent fcc Pd lattice locations that are stuffed tight with 2
deuterium nuclei. The net spin of the two new He* particles is high--24
mev--but amounts to 0 net angular momentum when considered as one item.
However, each He* within the coherent system may be able to distribute its
spin energy to the electrons in the vicinity, much as may happen with the
decay of the 8Be nucleus. The two LENR processes would be similar in this
regard.
Bob
[snip]
The p+Li7 reaction yields 17.35 MeV, not 24 MeV.
Based on this, and an assumption that the radius of a Helium nucleus is
about 2
fm, I calculated the angular momentum and found it to be about 2.5 times
that of
a photon, so in theory, a couple of photons could be emitted before the
nucleus
lost too much angular momentum. As to the energy of those photons that would
depend on the frequency, and that is where the ground gets a bit squishy. If
you
base it on the rotational frequency of the nucleus, then the first photon
has an
energy of about 6 MeV. This is a powerful gamma and would be easily
detected.
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
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