TY - JOUR
T1 - Cold nuclear fusion in metallic hydrogen and normal metals
AU - Horowitz, Charles J.
PY - 1989
Y1 - 1989
N2 - The rate of nuclear fusion from tunneling in very dense metallic hydrogen in the core of Jupiter is calculated to be 10-50 per hydrogen-deuterium pair per second. It is estimated that the width of the fusion barrier for deuterium in palladium or a similar metal must be reduced to, of order, 0.1 A for the fusion rate to be 10-25 per deuterium per second. If this scale is achieved, the ratios of various nuclear reaction rates will be very different for cold versus thermonuclear fusion.
AB - The rate of nuclear fusion from tunneling in very dense metallic hydrogen in the core of Jupiter is calculated to be 10-50 per hydrogen-deuterium pair per second. It is estimated that the width of the fusion barrier for deuterium in palladium or a similar metal must be reduced to, of order, 0.1 A for the fusion rate to be 10-25 per deuterium per second. If this scale is achieved, the ratios of various nuclear reaction rates will be very different for cold versus thermonuclear fusion.
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U2 - 10.1103/physrevc.40.r1555
DO - 10.1103/physrevc.40.r1555
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AN - SCOPUS:35949009918
SN - 0556-2813
VL - 40
SP - R1555-R1558
JO - Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics
JF - Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics
IS - 4
ER -