In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sun, 6 Sep 2015 16:42:34 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Possibly from a neutron stripping reaction? Presumably that could be due >to deuterium being stripped of a neutron, resulting in a fast proton. But >that would not explain the peak at 62Ni in the Lugano results and the lack >of significant amounts of heavier nickel isotopes, which might accumulate >if deuterium was involved.
Indeed that's another possibility. In fact if he is detecting 6.7 MeV protons (did I recall the energy correctly?) then this reaction is a very likely candidate:- 58Ni + D => 59Ni + p (6.77 MeV) The more so, when you consider that all H contains some D, and 58Ni is the most prevalent Ni isotope. Furthermore, 59Ni decays almost entirely via electron capture directly to the ground state of 59Co, so that there is no gamma emission. The energy of the transition is presumably all carried away by the neutrino. (There is however the occasional positron decay iso EC). > >One thing I was wondering was whether there could be a reaction involving >an accelerated 6Li into a 7Li and what the possible daughters might be. ??? Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
