Nuclear Emissions During Self-Nucleated Acoustic Cavitation

Abstract

A unique, new stand-alone acoustic inertial confinement nuclear fusion test device was successfully tested. Experiments using four different liquid types were conducted in which bubbles were self-nucleated without the use of external neutrons. Four independent detection systems were used (i.e., a neutron track plastic detector to provide unambiguous visible records for fast neutrons, a detector, a NE-113-type liquid scintillation detector, and a NaI gamma ray detector). Statistically significant nuclear emissions were observed for deuterated benzene and acetone mixtures but not for heavy water. The measured neutron energy was <or=2.45 MeV, which is indicative of deuterium-deuterium (D-D) fusion. Neutron emission rates were in the range approximately 5x10(3) n/s to approximately 10(4) n/s and followed the inverse law dependence with distance. Control experiments did not result in statistically significant neutron or gamma ray emissions.

On the Nuclear Coupling of Proton and Electron

“…No modulation and pumping of protons, as described above for our case, were applied to the arc; therefore the conditions of the experiment were different from ours. On the other hand Taleyarkhan et al [3] and Nigmatulin et al [8] reported on gamma-ray emission from collapsed bubbles. In their experiments fast neutrons nucleated 30 bubble clusters per second in deuterated acetone; in self-nucleation experiments in which solute uranium salt emanated particles, the rate of creation of bubble clusters was much lower (for deuterated benzene-based mixtures and deuterated water).…”

“…Nevertheless, in the experiments [2][3][4][5][6][7][8] the authors did not at all allude to heating of the liquids studied, which points to a kind of a nonradiative transition in nuclei in the small spherical zones mentioned above. In other words, the phenomenon of sonofusion may belong to the class of reactions known as low energy nuclear reactions, or cold fusion.…”

“…In the subdeuterium the total mass is and its center-of-mass can continue to move with the same kinetic energy equal to J, which is 2.5 MeV (as was revealed in the experiments of Taleyarkhan, Nigmatulin et al [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]), though with a little bit lower velocity 10 7 m s −1 . The known nuclear reaction (20) cannot really be applied for the subhydrogen, as the reaction (20) occurs only in a large nucleus when the nucleus catches an orbital electron from the K or L shell, which results in the decay of an inner proton to a neutron.…”

“…Regarding tritium detected in works [2][3][4][5][6][7][8], we may assume the usual reaction (21) or maybe the nuclear pair determined above, which is formed of the deuteron and subdeuterium pair, imitating tritium . One more interesting reaction at sonofusion was reported by FitzGerald [47]; experimenting with sonoluminescence in a liquid D 2 O, he measured an output of particles, i.e.…”

“…In the experiments of Taleyarkhan, Nigmatulinet et al [2][3][4][5][6][7][8] neutrons and tritium atoms emitted from the collapsed bubble in a quantity of 150 -200 [8] for each kind of species per one pulse. This is also in line with the model described above.…”