(D+D+)2e- binuclear atoms as activated precursors in cold and warm fusion
Abstract
It is shown that the binuclear heliumlike atom (D+D+)2e-, where the D+-D+ nuclear separation is of the order of 0.5a0 (a0 being the Bohr radius) and the electron configuration resembles that of the helium atom, is a metastable configuration which can be formed by overcoming an energy barrier of the order of 2E0 (-E0 being the hydrogen ground-state electronic energy). Since the temperature conditions allowing the binuclear heliumlike atoms to be formed are obtained during the implantation of heavy clusters into deuterated targets, (D+D+)2e- seems the natural candidate to explain the warm fusion events observed during the impact of heavy water clusters onto titanium deuteride. The hypothesis that (D+D+)2e- is the fusing species in other cold fusion phenomena (electrolytic fusion, fusion induced by a thermodynamic instability, and chemofusion) is discussed.
- Publication:
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Anomalous Nuclear effects in deuterium/solid Systems
- Pub Date:
- May 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.40685
- Bibcode:
- 1991AIPC..228..668C
- Keywords:
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- 25.45.-z;
- <sup>2</sup>H-induced reactions