Ultra low momentum neutron

[edpell]

Eur. Phys. J. C (2006)
THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1140/epjc/s2006-02479-8
Ultra low momentum neutron catalyzed nuclear reactions on metallic hydride surfaces
A. Widom 1, L. Larsen 2
1 Physics Department, Northeastern University, 110 Forsyth Street, Boston MA 02115, USA
2 Lattice Energy LLC, 175 North Harbor Drive, Chicago IL 60601, USA

Can anyone comment of this peer reviewed journal article?

 

[Vanadium 50]

The comment is "yawn". It's a hand-wavy calculation that the rest of the community didn't find interesting. Nine cites, seven of them self-cites, and two by Cold Fusioners with an axe to grid. Yawn.

 

[andert]

I have been reading about this lately. It's quite interesting. The process is not fusion at all, but purely a weak force interaction. The 2004 DOE review of LENR certainly supported the idea that no strong force interactions were taking place.

The theory has been gaining ground lately. I think once people admit that fusion is not taking place, it is possible to move on with the science.

NASA is currently trying to confirm some aspects of the theory:

http://futureinnovation.larc.nasa.gov/view/articles/futurism/bushnell/low-energy-nuclear-reactions.html

Also, there was a meeting at CERN about it this year:

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1433865/