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Characterising cold fusion in 2D models
EPJD News ^ | Dec 2020 | EDJP highlight

Posted on 04/30/2021 12:24:56 PM PDT by Kevmo

https://epjd.epj.org/epjd-news/2070-epj-d-highlight-characterising-cold-fusion-in-2d-models

Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics

EPJ D Highlight - Characterising cold fusion in 2D models Published on 15 December 2020

Mapping the probability of fusion A new 2D modelling approach has been used to directly calculate how hydrogen nuclei fuse into helium after capturing muons

Progress towards ‘cold fusion,’ where nuclear fusion can occur at close to room temperatures, has now been at a standstill for decades. However, an increasing number of studies are now proposing that the reaction could be triggered more easily through a mechanism involving muons – elementary particles with the same charge as electrons, but with around 200 times their mass. Through a study published in EPJ D, researchers led by Francisco Caruso at the Brazilian Centre for Physical Research have shown theoretically how this process would unfold within 2D systems, without any need for approximations.

The team’s results could lead to long-awaited advances in the field of cold fusion – which has been proposed as an efficient, sustainable way to harvest vast amounts of energy. Since muons are so much heavier than electrons, they will orbit far closer to atomic nuclei when captured by hydrogen atoms. This enables the nuclei to fuse into helium far more readily – after which the muon is released from the system. However, since the amount of energy released is relatively small, it has remained challenging for theoretical physicists to propose a reliable basis for the technique, limiting its progress so far.

Caruso’s team took a different approach in their study: this time, focusing on calculating the elementary processes involved in muon-catalysed fusion in 2D. The researchers then compared the behaviour of their model with 3D measurements, which revealed that the 2D process is influenced by significantly different parameters. Most strikingly, they showed that fusion is 1 billion times more likely to occur between a muonic pair of tritium atoms – a form of hydrogen containing two extra neutrons in its nucleus – than is the case for 3D. By directly calculating these probabilities, instead of estimating them, the team’s findings could provide valuable insights for future studies of cold fusion.

F. Carusoa, A. Tropera, V. Ogurib, F. Silveira (2020) A bidimensional quasi-adiabatic model for muon-catalyzed fusion in muonic hydrogen molecules, European Physical Journal D 74:240,

https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2020-10479-6

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To: TexasGator

You’re trolling. Leave this thread.


21 posted on 04/30/2021 1:31:32 PM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: Kevmo

“your hostile questions.”

Technical, not hostile.


22 posted on 04/30/2021 1:33:49 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

From the jar next over reading “morons”.


23 posted on 04/30/2021 1:34:35 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: TexasGator; Admin Moderator

You’re once again trolling a legitimate LENR thread. Please leave.


24 posted on 04/30/2021 1:35:25 PM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: TexasGator; Admin Moderator

When someone asks you to leave, then leave. ~Jimrob


25 posted on 04/30/2021 1:37:20 PM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: SgtHooper

I see you aren’t addressing the link that answered his questions either.

Please leave the thread and look up Jimrob’s updated internal trolling guidelines.


26 posted on 04/30/2021 1:39:25 PM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: Paladin2

When you simplify the model, the math gets way easier. That was possible how 1Dimensional Luttinger Liquids were discovered.


27 posted on 04/30/2021 1:41:54 PM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: Silentgypsy

Thanks. That’s a 17page sample. Best to buy the book.


28 posted on 04/30/2021 1:49:29 PM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: Kevmo

Then 0 dimensional modeling is best?


29 posted on 04/30/2021 1:56:04 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Kevmo

“Please leave the thread and look up Jimrob’s updated internal trolling guidelines.”

Can you provide a link? Thanks.


30 posted on 04/30/2021 1:57:57 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Paladin2

That’s where it all started. God’s purview.


31 posted on 04/30/2021 2:03:38 PM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: TexasGator

“Whhere do you get the muons?”

It’s more than just that. You also need to build hydrogen atoms with them.

This research gives useful insight, but it doesn’t solve any of the current obstacles to muon based fusion.


32 posted on 04/30/2021 3:04:24 PM PDT by Renfrew
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To: Renfrew

“You also need to build hydrogen atoms with them.”

Muons have a mean life-time of 2.2 μs.


33 posted on 04/30/2021 3:29:35 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Kevmo; Fred Nerks

Thank you for the potential zot list.

The Viking Kitties accept the offering.


34 posted on 04/30/2021 3:31:01 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Candor7; TexasGator

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3928396/posts


35 posted on 04/30/2021 3:45:26 PM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: Kevmo

Thanks. I am in full compliance with your linked guidelines.


36 posted on 04/30/2021 3:50:43 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Renfrew

“This research gives useful insight, but it doesn’t solve any of the current obstacles to muon based fusion.”

Try this for some answers:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15361055.2018.1546090


37 posted on 04/30/2021 3:56:28 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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To: Kevmo

Thank you. I feel all warm and fuzzy.


38 posted on 04/30/2021 4:03:36 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Kevmo

Cheap plentiful, terawatt sized, battery farms are coming by 2025. They will be fed by conventional and renewable sources. Exotic energy research makes for good laboratory drama, but little else.


39 posted on 04/30/2021 5:01:49 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: ckilmer

I hope that’s the case. Even better if they get the physics figured out to the point that we can use deuterium.


40 posted on 04/30/2021 5:04:42 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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