Posted on 04/30/2021 12:24:56 PM PDT by Kevmo
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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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“your hostile questions.”
Technical, not hostile.
From the jar next over reading “morons”.
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When you simplify the model, the math gets way easier. That was possible how 1Dimensional Luttinger Liquids were discovered.
Thanks. That’s a 17page sample. Best to buy the book.
Then 0 dimensional modeling is best?
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Can you provide a link? Thanks.
That’s where it all started. God’s purview.
“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.
“You also need to build hydrogen atoms with them.”
Muons have a mean life-time of 2.2 μs.
Thank you for the potential zot list.
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Thanks. I am in full compliance with your linked guidelines.
“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
Thank you. I feel all warm and fuzzy.
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.
I hope that’s the case. Even better if they get the physics figured out to the point that we can use deuterium.
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