Bob Higgins, do not forget that all these energies come from nuclear potentials which are in sort of equilibrium, a chaotic one, with coulomb potential. this strong inhibition is expected given that, in my view, lenr seem to be set around the threshold of fusion and scattering. and a larger energy is closer to scatter (a high energy gamma would push out a nucleon).
Though, I can see a 3- 4 magnitude fall in intensity in counting from the peak. That does not mean it is hot in the usual sense. The usual black body assume coupled oscillators. Here we have many uncoupled nucleus while the black body comes from an ensemble of oscillators on small spheres. Note that in the paper, the number of states of oscillators is small, around 15000. That gives a peak for d+d+d+d 2x (42MeV/15000) of around 4,6 kev. Larger oscillations are more unlikely. 1 Mev requires a deviation of around 360 from the peak. A gross approximation (inverse) gives stirling 1/(nln - n) https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=-(357.14285714285714285714285714286ln357.14285714285714285714285714286+-+357.14285714285714285714285714286) = 1/1742.1913792146352900471960115636 . Which is about right. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ [email protected]
