Multilateral utilization of nuclear fusion reactions.

Low Energy Nuclear Fusion Reactions in Solids

The DD fusion reactions in various materials have been studied, and enhancements in the rate of the D(d,p)T fusion reaction over the Gamow function were clearly seen in the materials. Of particular interest is the fact that the reaction rate of the D+D reactions at 2.5 keV in PdO is 60 times (and in Pd 10 times) larger than in Ti, and the deduced screening energy amounts to 600 eV (300 eV). Fur...

An Explanation of Low-energy Nuclear Reactions (Cold Fusion)

A plausible nuclear-active-environment in which Low-energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) occurs is identified by ruling out various possibilities and by identifying an environment that is common to all successful methods. When this environment is combined with a plausible mechanism, many testable predictions result. These insights and proposals are offered to help clarify understanding of LENR and to...

Excitation of nuclear anharmonic vibrations in heavy-ion fusion reactions

We discuss the e ects of multi-phonon excitations on heavy-ion fusion reactions at energies near and below the Coulomb barrier, focusing especially on the role of anharmonicities. We carry out a systematic study of those e ects on the excitation function of the fusion cross section and on the fusion barrier distribution, by using the vibrational limit of the interacting boson model. We also ana...

Nuclear Reactions

Nuclear reactions and nuclear ̄ssion

1 Cross sections and reaction rates 2 Consider a thin target of thickness dx and number density of targets nt being bombarded by a beam of number density Nb moving at velocity v. Each target nucleus presents a target area 3⁄4 { if one of the bombarding particles passes within the area 3⁄4, interaction (scattering, for example) occurs, otherwise not. Now if the beam covers an area A, the fractio...