Hi Eric You might be right and if so it will be interesting. Apart from the interesting effects on the magnetic and electric fields I suppose those high density fluctuations may couple with the soft x-ray radiation through coupling with the plasma frequency if the electron density can get sufficiently high enough to approach that of degenerate matter. I wonder if there is a way we could measure those fluctuations externally would there be apparent signature in the EMF or something? Even though this paper is looking at quite extreme conditions with regards the magnetic field the fact it affects the decay rates seems to indicate something about how that decay works in general. I know similar studies have also been performed on the decay of Neutrons in strong magnetic fields but these would be free neutrons and so would probably align easier with the external field.
Has any one identified what kind of magnetic field strengths we get in side a nucleus with in a few fm of a Nucleon? And what its strength would be fort her out at a few hundred fm or more? I do appreciate this question is simplistic as I probably need to consider the wave function in detail to understand the process and the implications of all the possible spin and angular momentum states etc but I'm not up to speed there unfortunately. So this is rather more a conceptual question regarding the dipole magnetic field from a particle. Stephen From: eric.wal...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 07:56:18 -0500 Subject: Re: [Vo]:Co59 Beta decay rates on Magnetar surface To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Yes, modification of decay rates is a topic of great interest to me. This is a theoretical paper, apparently working within the current assumptions of physics. In order for most LENR observations to be explained by induced decay, I think that one or more of those assumptions will need to be revisited somewhat. One example: how high the electron density can get for short periods of time in metals under nonequilibrium conditions. Eric On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 6:53 AM, Stephen Cooke <stephen_coo...@hotmail.com> wrote: I wonder if the following linked recent paper can be interesting to some here especially Axil and Eric? http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-016-2830-0 It's concerning changes in beta decay rates in the presence of magnetic fields on magnetars. I have so far only read the abstract but I think it could be interesting. Stephen
