chasing the 1.7 cm effect

[AntonioLao]

A serendipitous cold fusion was discovered by Luis W. Alvarez in 1956 at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility. This became known as the muon-catalyzed 1.7 cm effect. Alvarez won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to elementary particle physics, see http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1968/.

Alvarez and his group of experimental researchers were passing a particle beam of muons through a container of liquid hydrogen and liquid deuterium at extremely low temperature. What they saw was quite baffling at the time. The muon track was evident. However, for every incoming track there was a gap followed by a new 1.7 cm outgoing track. With the help of Edward Teller (father of U. S. H-bomb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller), they figured out the cause. Somehow the muon was helping two nuclei to get close enough enabling quantum tunneling breaking the repulsive energy barrier between them effecting cold fusion. Further investigations led to the realization that this effect had in fact been predicted few years earlier by F. C. Frank and Andrei Sakharov. Sakharov was head of Soviet H-bomb project, a tokamak fusion theorist, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Sakharov.

Postscript: Alvarez was also known for helping his son, Walter analyzing clay samples found between the geological boundary layer between the Tertiary and Cretaceous period. The high percentages of abundant of the chemical element iridium found along this band of clay led them to theorize extraterrestrial impact causing the mass extinction of the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago with ground zero situated at Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.

[mkirkpatrick]

A serendipitous cold fusion was discovered by Luis W. Alvarez in 1956 at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility. This became known as the muon-catalyzed 1.7 cm effect. Alvarez won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to elementary particle physics, see http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1968/.

Alvarez and his group of experimental researchers were passing a particle beam of muons through a container of liquid hydrogen and liquid deuterium at extremely low temperature. What they saw was quite baffling at the time. The muon track was evident. However, for every incoming track there was a gap followed by a new 1.7 cm outgoing track. With the help of Edward Teller (father of U. S. H-bomb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller), they figured out the cause. Somehow the muon was helping two nuclei to get close enough enabling quantum tunneling breaking the repulsive energy barrier between them effecting cold fusion. Further investigations led to the realization that this effect had in fact been predicted few years earlier by F. C. Frank and Andrei Sakharov. Sakharov was head of Soviet H-bomb project, a tokamak fusion theorist, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Sakharov.

Postscript: Alvarez was also known for helping his son, Walter analyzing clay samples found between the geological boundary layer between the Tertiary and Cretaceous period. The high percentages of abundant of the chemical element iridium found along this band of clay led them to theorize extraterrestrial impact causing the mass extinction of the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago with ground zero situated at Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.

Many thanks for the first two sites,Antonio,i will
be checking them out soon,fusion is just around the corner!
kind regards michael.