Here is Wiki's entry for the Muon, with the decay tree. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon
Fred Sparber mentioned the other day that he thinks that an "End of Life" High Energy Muon/ Electron can be taken up by any atom-molecule as a High Energy K-Shell Electron. This would put it in a metastable state. A Proton entering such an "activated atom" such as Potassium or Argon etc (and especially hydrogen in the ocean) can sequester the High Energy Electron and form a Hydrino or Hydrino minus [hydrino-hydride] or even a neutron." What I like about this thought, taken to the next cumulative step, is that it provides a natural mechanism for explaining the distinct but small population of deuterium, which may accumulate in the oceans and which will undergo low energy decay to (p,n) at far less than the 'normal' threshold energy. It also figures into the well-known anomalies with potassium and argon. If that natural population is ever proved to be there, then some of it could come from the sun also, so there are two hypothetical mechanisms in place to explain it. It has been a while since the Oppenheimer-Phillips effect (deuterium stripping) has been mentioned, so let me toss-out some older possibilities and factoids: The proton and neutron in all deuterium are comparatively loosely bound. In fact, if you could simply flip the spin of either of the two nucleons, the deuteron falls apart. If the "neutron" in some proportion is not a real neutron, but instead is a shrunken-orbit hydrino, then this serves to explain not only Gow stripping, the Fusor, Oppenheimer-Phillips and also it figures into Widom-Larsen theory (but they do not know it yet ;-) Even though some older "textbook" numbers seem to overlook the phenomenon, experimenters who rely on the book figure for binding energy (2.225 MeV) simply cannot explain many experiments, including the Farnsworth Fusor where the binding energy for the small population can be shown to be only ~20 keV or less. This is a difference of over 100 times and beyond all statistical rationalization. This population of deuterium seems to decay much easier, spall or otherwise loose the neutron; and/or can decay to p + p + e- directly. The real difference of deuterium from all other nuclei is the barbell shape and the effective distance between the two nucleons is huge (relatively) at the far end of normal pulsation. Heisenberg's door is open wide enough for weak and EM interactions to supply the missing energy (recoverable) to induce a "stimulated" but "spontaneous" beta decay of the deuteron. But the keV threshold only seems to happen in a certain small population. Thus - there arises the muon connection to the Oppenheimer-Phillips effect to explain this as a natural population. There are of course some hard-heads who deny all of the LENR results altogether, except for the Fusor. On earth, naturally occurring muons are created by cosmic rays, mostly protons arriving from deep space at very high energy. About 10,000 muons reach every square meter of the earth's surface a minute; but in the ocean, this is tiny compared to the amount of natural primordial deuterium. So even if muons do eventually figure into building up a natural population of "faux-D" (which could be Robin's hypothesis or a different beast than Robin envisons), anyway - this ongoing process must transpire over billions of years to be noticeable at all. Fred has signed-off vortex for now, but continues to ponder these things. Jones
