Atom Interferometry for Nuclear Reactions

[mheslep]

I'll take that to mean that you no longer:

...strongly disbelieve these numbers...

and that this

...No. One is not going to get 103 reactions before a muon decays - half-life ~ 2 microseconds or so. One might be fortunate to get a d and t or d traveling nearly parallel (highly improbable, but could happen) and the muon just happens to pass by at the right moment (even more improbable). One is lucky to get one reaction...

and this

Any given muon can only catalyze exactly ONE fusion reaction!
This is NOT like a catalyst that can be used over and over again.
Muons are a ONE SHOT catalyst - so this is all NONSENSE!

are understood to be incorrect (since the 70's)

BTW here's a http://npre421.ne.uiuc.edu/2007%20files/Reports/slides/Manley%20muon%20catalyzed.pdf" from Miley and Dolan's 421 class at Univ. Ill this past Spring.

mheslep

 

[Astronuc]

Fusion reactions may occur at temperatures as low as room temperatures as low as room temperature (cold fusion) - I'm still skeptical.


Current experiments report up to 200 fusions possible per muon - under what conditions.


In order for µCF to become practical with current pi-meson production designs, each muon must catalyze meson production designs, each muon must catalyze reactions ~300 fusion reactions.


I'd like to see the evidence of 200 fusions/muon. I'm still skeptical.


I see cold fusion (neutron sources) - not commercial power generation.