Just wondering if this might be relevent to one of the Cold Fusion "miracles"
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-neutron-rich-tin-nucleus-electromagnetism-strong.html In a recent experiment ... scientists .. made a very surprising observation: High-energy gamma rays—which are mediated by the electromagnetic force—are emitted in the decay of a certain excited nucleus—tin 133, in competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear force. This is despite the fact that the neutron emission was expected to be orders of magnitude faster since the force is much stronger. ... The RIBF results suggest that structure effects, which are commonly neglected in the evaluation of neutron-emission probabilities in calculations of global beta-decay properties for astrophysical simulations, are much more important than generally assumed ... -- Alan Fletcher <a...@well.com>
