On Mar 5, 2014, at 11:10 PM, Eric Walker wrote: > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]> wrote: > > When alpha particles pass through material, a series of nuclear reactions can > occur that emit radiation. In addition, bremsstrahlung radiation is emitted > as the alpha slows down. Hagelstrin describes these processes in the papers I > attached previously. I suggest you read them. > > If an alpha is born from a [dd]* resonance in which the mass energy is > fractionated among a large number of sinks (e.g., nearby electrons and ion > cores), the 4He daughter would have no or almost no energy. There would be > the bath of photons from the fractionation, the nearly stationary 4He > daughter, and no Bremsstrahlung from collisions by a fast particle.
Yes, that is the assumption. The issue is whether that assumption is valid. Can a large number of sinks participate in what is a random process such that they can share mass-energy? Can this collection remain intact for the time required for the process to go to completion. You must assume that a nuclear energy state can form between a large number of atoms in a chemical system. This concept is in conflict with the laws of thermodynamics. Ed Storms > > Eric >
