'The amount of energy needed to create a free pion is large; the rest mass for a pion is ~ 135 MeV' Very true this is also true for the muon which has a rest mass for a pion is ~ 106 MeV. I'm not sure if muons can be generated without pions? muon pair production would require even more energy. The energy is also quite high compared to the binding energy of light Nuclei. If I am right I think the laser produces much less thermal energy too. It is difficult to imagine how either muons (or pions) can form with out some kind of collective resonance effect or an additional high MeV energy source such as sufficient energy from a high energy fusion event or more even strangely a nucleon decay to mesons. It will be interesting what Holmlids observations and explanations say, I'm quite curious as you say he could well have another explanation.
From: [email protected] Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 08:47:08 -0500 Subject: Re: [Vo]:MMDD .... Muon Mediated Deuteron Disintegration To: [email protected] On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 2:21 AM, Stephen Cooke <[email protected]> wrote: If any was produced we would need to balance this against those the energy required for pion production. The amount of energy needed to create a free pion is large; the rest mass for a pion is ~ 135 MeV. Consider that the largest amount of energy typically discussed in the context of cold fusion up to now has been ~ 24 MeV. Holmlid's observations are likely to go back to something other than the generation of pions. Eric
