
ICCF-22 (Sept. 8-13) News/reports/opinions
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It’s a pity that you were not at this conference, so the guys are worried ....
Жаль, что тебя не было на этой конференции, вот ребята и переживают....
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The unusually high neutron capture cross section of certain (few) isotopes is somewhat of a mystery. 135-Xenon can be explained by magic
numbers, the others cannot. Xing Zhong Li (Professor Emeritus Tsinghua University) believes that the GENERAL stability of such isotopes is also
anomalous. He and I discussed this at some length at ICCF21 in Fort Collins last year.
My hypothesis is that isotopes with high neutron capture cross section are halo nuclei. They have a regular pattern of nuclear Z numbers (Z=n*16). More details are in the "Maxwell-Dirac Theory and Occam’s Razor: Unified Field, Elementary Particles, and Nuclear Interactions" book.
The "magic numbers" theory might as well be called "unicorn" theory. Lynn Bowen had a poster about that at ICCF22.