Yes, this is aprox. the idea I developed with Akito. The fusing atoms are like mini neutron stars.
2014-05-18 15:36 GMT-03:00 Jones Beene <[email protected]>: > > This explanation would be that D+D occasionally forms > incompletely, not as 4He but instead as a two proton core - the diproton > species (2He) with neutrons only slightly bound to this core, and at a > substantial distance away (in short as a "halo"). This species can be > called > the "diproton with halo" and could shed the full 24 MeV, which cannot be > done via electrons. > > The 2He nucleus does have a short lifetime, which is > possibly extended long enough by having a halo to do the following: the two > neutrons become separated in a remote halo orbital, from whence the > circumference is adequate for them to shed UV photons (possibly in the > 100+eV range) which are easily thermalized. This species (which will be > called the "diproton with halo") could then be positioned to shed the full > 24 MeV in as a few as 250,000 sequential photons, at the same time as the > halo orbital is shrinking down. This would all transpire sub-nanosecond. > > In the end, the two halo neutrons spiral down to collapse > into the 2He core, forming an alpha, but with almost no excess mass. > > The falsifiability is a matter of documenting the EUV > emission. > > > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ [email protected]
