RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MICROSCOPIC AND MACROSCOPIC INTERACTIONS IN LOW ENERGY NUCLEAR REACTIONS: Lessons Learned from D+D→~4He

摘要

For a long time, Cold Fusion (CF) seemed to be at odds with conventional Physics both experimentally and theoretically. A key reason for this involved confusion about the possibility that processes involving characteristic length scales of nuclear- and atomic- size dimensions could couple to each other without releasing high momentum particles. As experiments have improved, this situation has changed. In the paper, we identify and contrast a number of common themes associated with the manner in which five of the more refined theories have addressed this problem.