Hi all, I was wondering about the higher then expected rates of fusion seen in accelerator experiments at moderate speeds seen by researcher and explained by electron screening. The fundamental paper Kim et all i basing his theory on is in a sense interesting and can be a reality, but I did only see that they manage to fit the model to the data, not really a proof of that the model explain the phenomena, or am I wrong? What is the general thought here have we got this result explained or is there more to do?
My thought is the following, if the proton hit the hydrogen atom fast enough the electron field does not adapt fast enough and I would assume that the picture is like a bullet penetrating a shield. Here the gamov factors explain the reaction rate. As the speed of the impacting proton gets slower, a mysterious effect of a significant part of the electron will sit beside the two protons as they approach each other and thereby screening the two fields. I was just curious how exactly this was so. My problem is that in a sense the incoming proton needs to push the electron field and keep it situated between them in order to do any shielding. What is the force causing this? Essentially I would like to peek into this physics of the system by simulating it in a computer using QED, but I guess that we cannot do this but rely on measurements or is it possible? anyone having a clue? My take on it is that we have a magnetic interaction between the electron and proton that pushes the electron field and keeps an electric shield between the two protons. This is an interesting picture, Now consider the hydrino states of QED. They are unphysical, but probably they show how the electron distribution would look like if the field was forced closer to the proton e.g. a very high density of the field close to the visinity of the proton also the cost of pushing the electron field like that (at least on one side of the proton) is energetically not so costly and unstable due to the what the mathematics of the hydrino QED show, so although the hydrino is an artefact, the mathematics can have a bearing. Now all this indicates that in the collision there may also be an electron present (it wnt's to behave like a hydrino) and hence the nuclear process that yield the helium is different than what considered normal, it may be so that this can give a handle to explain why neutrons are a rare event in LENR processes. A very interesting question is what happens to this physical experiment if the magnetics is controlled in the experiment, can one increase the rates seen even further. So in all I would like to peek into this system to get clues of actual physics, is it possible? Cheers! Stefan
