-----Original Message----- From: H LV > The stimulated decay of 64Ni should be accompanied by neutrons and/or > radioactivity. If it decayed directly to 62Ni this would generate detectable > neutrons and other radioactive isotopes.
Stimulated decay is one possibility but not the only one. There are no neutrons reported by anyone so far - so we can probably eliminate that channel. If we go back to basics and think about what is special about a tightly bound, neutron-rich ferromagnetic nucleus with no nuclear spin, and which does not emit neutrons, then we probably will want to shift focus to the hydrogen, and not the nickel... and possibly revisit Holmlid's finding of muons.
