Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rogers, Vern C.
• Sandquist, Gary M.

Titel

Cold fusion reaction products and their measurement

Ist Teil von

• Journal of fusion energy, 1990-12, Vol.9 (4), p.483-485

Erscheinungsjahr

1990

Quelle

SpringerLINK Contemporary (Konsortium Baden-Württemberg)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Neutrons, protons, tritium, helium-3, super(4)He, and gamma radiation are the major reaction products associated with cold fusion reactions. The branching ratios and relative reaction rates for these products are weighed for consistency with cold fusion experiments. The super(4)He plus internal conversion reaction has been proposed to explain the absence of neutrons or gamma rays in successful cold fusion trials, but this reaction is not favored, even in a deuterium-palladium system. Such reactions must be measured carefully owing to the presence of 2.2 MeV gamma rays, background tritium in heavy water, and neutrons from the photodisintegration of deuterium from background radiation.