Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Through Weak Interactions
Nuclear Theory
2024-06-18 v1
Abstract
We consider the possibility that low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) arise due to the conversion of proton to neutron through weak interactions. The resulting neutron forms a short-lived virtual state, which then gets captured by another nucleus through photon emission. This whole process happens under the framework of second-order perturbation theory. We find that the rate of this process is negligibly small in most cases. However, in the presence of a resonance, the rate can be substantial and observable.
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@article{arxiv.2406.11550,
title = {Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Through Weak Interactions},
author = {K. Ramkumar and Harishyam Kumar and Pankaj Jain},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.11550},
year = {2024}
}