In reply to Axil Axil's message of Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:07:03 -0400: Hi, [snip] >In the Rossi reaction, the lack of radioactive unstable nuclei tells me >that the proton has little or no kinetic energy when it enters a nickel >nucleus. This implies that the coulomb barrier has been removed long before >the penetration of the nucleus by the proton.
Gentle motion isn't enough to preclude gamma radiation. The very entry of the proton releases at least 6 MeV, ample to result in gamma emission from an excited nucleus. The only examples of relatively low gamma emission that are seen in other reactions are when the energy is removed by a fast particle before gamma emission can take place. This seems to me like the most likely path in this case too, since it involves no new physics, and some low energy radiation has been reported. I suspect that the primary reason that Rossi's reactor produces so little radiation is that most of the energy flows from f/H creation, with very little coming from actual nuclear reactions, and those few that do occur produce either a fast proton or a fast electron, or possibly multiple fast particles. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
