This hang-up on neutrons and 4He is due to this irresistible indoctrination from old time nuclear physics. Rossi states that he has never seen a neutron. 4He is just as likely to transmute as any other element. 4He has no special status in LENR, IMHO.
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 6:47 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sat, 20 Sep 2014 10:18:40 -0700: > Hi, > [snip] > >The nickel to nickel idea seems very promising. I doubt there is deuteron > >capture, because if there is deuteron capture, there is probably proton > >capture as well, along with all of the nasty gammas. This is what is > >leading me to deuterium stripping -- e.g., 60Ni(d,p)61Ni. Here the > neutron > >is stripped off of the deuteron and added to the nickel, and the proton > >flies in the other direction, rather than there being a full capture. > > > Actually, I rather like this idea. It's much easier for a neutron to > tunnel than > for a proton, because the neutron has no Coulomb barrier opposing it. > (Both the > neutron and the proton however need to find 2.2 MeV to escape the deuterium > nucleus, so parting is equally difficult for each.) > > Note also that a severely shrunken Deuterino will have a much higher > chance of > participating in such a reaction because it can get close to a target > nucleus. > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
