The possible Role of Axions in LENR

  • Given the upper limit of proton decay speed observed (more than 6 × 1034 years) it's improbable to play significant role for LENR: with axions or without them (the same logics indeed also applies to axions itself). If the heat of Sun would depend on decay of protons, it would produce few microwatts as a whole.

  • Given the upper limit of proton decay speed observed (more than 6 × 1034 years) it's improbable to play significant role for LENR: with axions or without them (the same logics indeed also applies to axions itself). If the heat of Sun would depend on decay of protons, it would produce few microwatts as a whole.


    I don't understand,,,. the decay of the proton releases most of it mass to energy which is 1 GeV per reaction. Fusion releases about 3 MeV.

  • Only if the proton would decay to radiation completely. But why it shouldn't decay to neutron and electron first, for example? The probability of such process is much higher, it runs for example inside the neutron stars, which segregate their matter of protons to neutron core and electron surface layer. It releases lower energy but the scale of its production would overshadow every subtle effect of direct proton decay.


    The proton decay is abstract concept - in reality the protons would always decay to their constituents first.

  • Only if the proton would decay to radiation completely. But why it shouldn't decay to neutron and electron first, for example? The probability of such process is much higher, it runs for example inside the neutron stars, which segregate their matter of protons to neutron core and electron surface layer. It releases lower energy but the scale of its production would overshadow every subtle effect of direct proton decay.


    The proton decay is abstract concept - in reality the protons would always decay to their constituents first.




    p→K+ν

    Nuclear interac<on is negligible

    Kaon momentum s 340 MeV/c: is below Cherenkov threshold

    essen<ally a search for kaon decay at rest





    Other decay modes as follows:


  • I have just run across an interesting tidbit when looking at the instanton write up in Wiki.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instanton


    This added mass comes from the creation of instantons as magnetic vortex packets that add mass to the quark.


    "In 3-dimensional gauge theories with Higgs fields, 't Hooft–Polyakov monopoles play the role of instantons. In his 1977 paper Quark Confinement and Topology of Gauge Groups, Alexander Polyakov demonstrated that instanton effects in 3-dimensional QED coupled to a scalar field lead to a mass for the photon."


    I then looked up the paper by N. Seiberg, E. Witten


    https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9407087


    Monopole Condensation, And Confinement In N=2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory


    What this says is that monopole magnetism can condense in the vacuum and form particles that have mass. When mass is added to the hadron, manly to quarks, they decay into mesons.

  • ... poor little guys in here not knowing what they are citing in accordance to what they are saying.... but still think, any conclusions can be based on that...

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