Is cold fusion a natural phenomenon?

2^nd International Conference and Exhibition on Mesoscopic and Condensed Matter Physics

October 26-28, 2016 Chicago, USA

Chi Yu Hu

California State University, USA

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Material Sci Eng

Abstract :

For more than quarter of a century, cold fusion was considered impossible, as there was no theoretical base for it. The solution to this puzzle is surprisingly simple. The supercomputers are available only in recent years. A powerful computer and the low energy quantum scattering theory solved the problem. A six-open channel Faddeev equation calculation was carried out a few years ago. The calculation revealed the universal phenomenon, the Stark-effect induced resonances within a colliding system and they are named as Gailitis resonances. Conditions exist when they produce interesting physical phenomena and cold fusion is one example. At resonant energies, a p-state proton approaching a Li isotope with atomic number A=7, form Gailitis resonances with the Li atom. This aspect is quite similar to that of muon catalyzed fusion while a negative muon confines the two hydrogen isotopes, A=2 and 3 to form a muonic molecule. However, it is the polarizability of the Li atom that enables the formation of Gailitis resonances. In addition, the nucleus of the Gailitis resonance, a p-state proton and the nucleus of the Li atom, has total energy, nuclear angular momentum, and parity to match that of a well-known broad compound nuclear state of Be isotope with A=8. That greatly enhances the probability for the proton to enter the nucleus of Li atom and becomes a compound nuclear state of the Be nucleus. This state is known to decay only into two energetic alpha particles. More details can be found in a special issue below.

Biography :

Chi Yu Hu has done her PhD from MIT, Cambridge, in the year 1962. She was an Assistant Professor at the California State University, Long Beach, CA (1963- 2006) and became a Professor in the year 2006. Some of her publications can be found in ResearchGate. She has been a Guest Editor for a Special Issue “Positron scattering and annihilation with atoms and molecules including emerging new resonances and their applications in other systems”.

Email: chiyu.hu@csulb.edu