Re: [Phys-l] Muon Catalyzed Fusion

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@hep.anl.gov>]

Sorry Chuck, your dates are way off.  The issue came up in the 'fities. 
I was on the scene at the Rad Lab at Berkeley at the time.  There was a 
definitive paper in PHys Rev, as I recall, Stan Cohen, who did some of the 
computing was a co-atuthor.  The original thought that there might be an 
energy source in the process came, as best ast I could tell, from Luis 
Alvarez.
				Regards,
					Jack



On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, chuck britton wrote:

> a bit of history?
>
> If I remember correctly - there was a paper on muonic fusion about to
> be published by some Utah researchers that MIGHT have 'rushed' the
> Pons & Fleishmann  team into announcing  their breakthrough.
>
>
> On Dec 13, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
>
> > Reality of tiny muoninc hydrogen-like atoms was demonstrated by the
> > analysis of their X-ray spactra. The idea of relying on such
> > short-lived atoms, to facilitate spontaneous fusion of hydrogen nuclei
> > (in tiny D2 molecules) was investigated Alvarz. Even without
> > complicating factors (mentioned above) the conclusion was that the
> > half-life of muons is too short for practical applications of the
> > idea.
> > That was about 20 years ago.
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