Medium Assisted Low Energy Nuclear Fusion (2403.04428v1)
Abstract: We study the process of nuclear fusion at low energies in a medium using the second order time dependent perturbation theory. We consider a specific process which involves fusion of a low energy proton with a Nickel nucleus. The reaction proceeds in two steps or interactions. We refer to the amplitudes corresponding to these two interactions as the the molecular and the nuclear matrix elements. The first amplitude involves Coulomb interaction with another nucleus in the medium while the second corresponds to the nuclear fusion process. It has been shown in earlier papers that such a second order process has negligible amplitude unless it is assisted by special medium effects. In the present paper we show the presence of a special configuration of atoms which greatly enhances the process. We find that if the spacings among the atoms can be tuned, the rate can be sufficiently enhanced so that easily observable. The spacings do not require acute fine tuning, however, if they are significantly off the rate falls sharply to negligible values. This might also explain both the successes and failures experienced by many experimentalists studying this phenomenon. We study only a particular final state which involves emission of one photon. However we show that many final states are possible which need not involve photon emission.
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