A model for enhanced fusion reaction in a solid matrix of metal deuterides
Abstract
Our study shows that the cross-section for fusion improves considerably if d-d pairs are located in linear (one-dimensional) chainlets or line defects. Such non-equilibrium defects can exist only in a solid matrix. Further, solids harbor lattice vibrational modes (quanta, phonons) whose longitudinal-optical modes interact strongly with electrons and ions. One such interaction, resulting in potential inversion, causes localization of electron pairs on deuterons. Thus, we have attraction of D+ D- pairs and strong screening of the nuclear repulsion due to these local electron pairs (local charged bosons: acronym, lochons). This attraction and strong coupling permits low-energy deuterons to approach close enough to alter the standard equations used to define nuclear-interaction cross-sections. These altered equations not only predict that low-energy-nuclear reactions (LENR) of D+ D- (and H+ H-) pairs are possible, they predict that they are probable.
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@article{arxiv.0901.2411,
title = {A model for enhanced fusion reaction in a solid matrix of metal deuterides},
author = {K. P. Sinha and A. Meulenberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.2411},
year = {2009}
}
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5 pages, 1 figure