M. Rambaut 57H rue De La Hacquiniere, 91440 Bures-sur- Yvette, France Received 12 September 1991; revised manuscript received 22 january 1992; accepted for publication 23 January 1992 Communicated by J.P. Vigier
In a dense, fully ionized medium, containing fusible nuclei, a collision between two nuclei is accompanied by an electron concentration around them. By this, rate of tunneling is tremendously increased. The experimental results are in agreement with the calculations, the number of displaced electrons being typically in the range of one to two thousand.
In a recent paper of the present author [1], which summarized a model developed with Vigier, it has been shown that a possible correlation exists between three kinds of observed fusion experiments, the so-called cold fusion experiments, the capillary fusion experiments and the cluster fusion experiments. This correlation was interpreted in terms of turbulence caused by longitudinal Ampere forces combined with Coulomb screening and quantum tunneling processes. The aim of this paper is to present a more detailed numerical computational justification of this model.
In the majority of the three kinds of fusion experiments one is working with dense media. Thepar- tides are thus so close together that it is unrealistic to assume a Maxwellian velocity distribution whose extreme tails could give an explanation for the supposed existence of thermal fusion with deuterons, whose extreme energies would be in the so-called thermonuclear fusion range, i.e. typically superior to 10 keY. In fact it is more realistic to consider such dense media as non-ideal plasmas [2]. Many papers bheatvweereencetnwtolynbeeigehnbdoeuvrointegdcthoartgheedscpraeretnicinlegspinrodbelnesme media. Mostofthemdonotproposenumericalcorn- parisonswithexperiments withthenotableexcep- tionofaprecise andcom,pletecalculationby Fe¬dorovich which investigates the screening of the electrical,fieldofapositivechargelocatedin agas
