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 http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
