On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote:
Regarding: "... the E-Cat is a massive source of alpha particles" For context, can you provide the source of this statement? I find this statement hard to believe since energetic alpha particle > emission produces lots of powerful EMF such as gamma rays in the process of > Alpha thermalization. It would depend upon the nature of the reaction. Alphas of sufficient energy will generate x-rays and inelastic collisions. In the case of x-rays, inner shell lattice electrons will be excited and will emit photons with up to ~ 9 keV energy. In case of inelastic collisions, there are isomeric transitions for nickel in the MeV range. I am not sure what the relative cross sections for inelastic collisions from fast alphas are. Some reactions that produce alphas will also normally be accompanied by the emission of a gamma (but not all reactions). In the case of otherwise gamma-emitting reactions, it's possible that the reaction energy is instead transmitted to the ensemble of electrons, each electron dividing the total share into smaller pieces and emitting a photon. If the ensemble is large, even a reaction with 20+ MeV can be quickly and quietly dissipated in the production of x-rays. If this happened, the daughter alpha itself might have little to no kinetic energy. The weak point in this line of investigation has to do with how to explain why the process would be so efficient that it would not result in stray gammas of the kind being short-circuited or in inelastic collisions with lattice sites. Nonetheless I find screening of some kind from the electron cloud provided by the lattice sites, together with thermalization through the agitation of a large ensemble of electrons, a very interesting line of exploration. Eric
