Title: Cold nuclear fusion in metallic hydrogen and normal metals
Abstract: The rate of nuclear fusion from tunneling in very dense metallic hydrogen in the core of Jupiter is calculated to be ${10}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}50}$ 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\r{} for the fusion rate to be ${10}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}25}$ 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.
Publication Year: 1989
Publication Date: 1989-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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