Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | R1555-R1558 |
| Journal | Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1989 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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