Dear Professor, The conventional means of producing muons is through bombardment with GeV particles in a particle accelerator. So if one had a cheap and efficient means of producing muons, then muon catalyzed D-D fusion might be economic. It seems you may have built such a particle accelerator, see
https://phys.org/news/2015-11-discovery-enable-portable-particle.html The process upon which this is based bombards a very dense plasma, with a pulsed laser which seems to describe your experimental setup quite well. The particle accelerator might explain the energetic particles that you are detecting, while the muon catalyzed fusion may explain the excess energy. I might add that while muons catalyze fusion reactions, the same might also be true of negatively charged mesons, since they are even heavier than muons, so the tunneling time should be even further reduced. True, the lifetime of pions is very short, but this may not matter in a very dense plasma, since the density means that the travel distance to the next atom is also very short. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk <mix...@bigpond.com>
