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The idea of catalytic fusion was summarized for us by
Leight (see below). In the spirit of promoting student's
excitement let me speculate and ask some questions.
1) Is it fair to assume that liquid D2 can be produced
in a cryogenic lab?
2) If a muon stopped in this liquid can cuase fusion
of many pairs of D2, such as 10 or 100, then we
should be able to create a cold fusion reactor by
producing a sufficiently strong muonic beam. As
I recall a "muon factory" existed at Nevis lab of
Columbia University (1970's ?) in New Jersey.
Does it still exist?
3) I have no idea what cross sections for absorbing
muons (creating muonic atoms) are at different
speeds. Knowing them would help to explore
this idea quantitatively. Any suggestions? Try
to show that this kind of reactor is practically
impossible or that it would produce less energy
that is needed to keep it going.