At 05:41 PM 12/11/2009, Horace Heffner wrote:
We *know* there are hot alphas. They show up in CR-39.
How can you tell the difference between these and knock-on protons from neutrons (or maybe deuterons)?
You may be right, but looking at the results that indicated chemical damage for those front-side tracks put me off my feed, so to speak, on alpha detection wet, and dry cuts down so much on the signal, if it's an alpha signal, that it's down where it could indeed be proton knock-on, perhaps even that is the most likely explanation for what remains. I think the triple track information will tell us, if we can get more triple-tracks, which should come with correspondingly more proton knock-on tracks. Tracks beyond what correlates properly with triple tracks would be, most likely, alpha particles.
There are just not enough to explain excess heat.
If that is so, then helium is being created also as other than hot alphas. Which is what Takahashi predicts: a range of alpha particle energies, 23.8 would be the maximum and would be rare, I think. I do have to find that paper and cite it!
They also do little to explain heavy transmutation LENR, which can happen even on a chemically detectable level.
Maybe.
