I take exception to Dr. Storms' statement that Sonofdusion is unrelated to LENR.
IMHO, it's all a matter of where a long-lived, Cosmic Ray Generated "Metastable Muon" is located in the electron cloud of any atom-molecule in the environment. Scroll down to the Bubble Chamber Photograph (1 and 2) Links in this excellent tutorial and note that the muon (Metastable-or Stable?) "forbidden to decay" see below, and note that the muon simply disappears at the end of it's track with No Evidence of any electron track that should be visible in the 1.78 Tesla magnetic field of this liquid hydrogen-filled bubble chamber. *http://homepage.mac.com/dtrapp/ePhysics.f/labVI_7.html*<http://homepage.mac.com/dtrapp/ePhysics.f/labVI_7.html> *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon> " Certain neutrino-less decay modes are kinematically allowed but forbidden in the Standard Model. Examples are [image: \mu^-\to e^-\gamma] and [image: \mu^-\to e^- e^+ e^-]. " Observation of such decay modes would constitute clear evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Standard_Model>(BSM). Upper limits for the branching fractions of such decay modes are in the range 10−11 to 10−12." " The muon was the first elementary particle<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_particle>discovered that does not appear in ordinary atoms <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom>. Negative muons can, however, form muonic atoms <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muonic_atoms> by replacing an electron in ordinary atoms. Muonic atoms are much smaller than typical atoms because the larger mass of the muon gives it a smaller ground-state<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_state> wavefunction <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefunction> than the electron." " A positive muon, when stopped in ordinary matter, can also bind an electron and form an exotic atom known as muonium<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muonium>(Mu) atom, in which the muon acts as the nucleus. The positive muon, in this context, can be considered a pseudo-isotope of hydrogen with one ninth of the mass of the proton. The reduced mass<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_mass>of muonium, hence its Bohr radius <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_radius>, is very close to that of hydrogen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen>, hence this short lived "atom" behaves chemically ― in first approximation ― like hydrogen<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen>, deuterium <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterium> and tritium<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium> ."
