Initiating nuclear-chemical transformations in native systems: Phenomenology

On Mechanisms of Low-Energy Nuclear-Chemical Processes

“…We also give examples [17,20] 27 Co agree with this conclusion: the half-life of β --active cesium-137 and barium-140 nuclei, equal to 30.1 years and 12.8 days, respectively, decreased to about 380 days and 2.7 days, while the halflife of cobalt-60, equal to 1925 days, remained practically unchanged. The Feynman diagrams corresponding to the β --decay processes, as well as the positron β + -decays of nuclei initiated by the е --catalysis mechanism, are shown in Fig.…”

“…In this paper, it is shown that the problems of establishing the possible mechanisms of LENR processes discussed above can be understood on the basis of the concepts of the interrelation between the electronic and nuclear subsystems of an atom [16][17][18][19][20], which determines the possibility of initiating the entire variety of nuclear transformations, including those studied in mentioned works [7][8][9][10][11][12][13], as well as realized in the Andrea Rossi E-CAT reactor [21,22].…”

“…According to the phenomenological understanding [17][18][19][20], the dynamic interrelation between the electron and nuclear subsystems of atom, realized through the electromagnetic component of the physical vacuum, the EM vacuum, is the key factor in initiating low-energy nuclear reactions [7][8][9][10][11][12][13] and the processes of radioactive decay of nuclei [13,17,18]. A reflection of this interrelation is, in particular, the experimentally established facts showing that the possibility of radioactive decay of nuclei is determined by the positive difference between the mass of the initial nucleus together with the mass of the electron subsystem of the atom (i.e., the mass of the whole atom, not the nucleus) and the total mass of the decay products [23,24].…”

“…n isu , respectively, with baryon numbers equal to one and two, zero lepton charges and rest masses equal to the masses of the hydrogen atom and deuterium, can effectively participate in a variety of nuclear processes [13,[17][18][19][20].…”

“…We will assume, following [20], that if the nucleus of an atom (or ion) is in a metastable, predecay isu-state (we assume that this is 27 13 isu Mg ), then the lability of the electronic subsystem increases, and the probability of its partial overlap with electronic subsystems of the located near atom (in this case, the nitrogen atom), grows for this atom. It is obvious that large values of the energy releases of the gross processes (22) and (23) should act as an initiating factor to the manifestation of the spin-spin interaction of the electronic subsystems of both atoms and the formation of common "molecular" orbitals under the correcting action of spin electronnuclear interactions for each of the atoms.…”