New Energy Times - Hora-Miley Theory Portal

Heinrich Hora's theory explains the LENR measurements of Miley’s group based on d-d fusion reaction experiments. The reactions are in picometer distance with probabilities of about 100 kiloseconds. The reactions are similar to K-shell nuclear transitions and are based on a reduction of Coulomb repulsion by a screening factor of 14, with preference at interfaces because of the swimming electron layer. This explains the Miley group’s measurements of LENR generation of elements up to and beyond gold, with maxima identical to the same element distribution as in the universe. This confirmation of the LENR mechanism leads to a new theory for the well-known magic numbers of nuclei, a similarity of LENR to uranium fission distributions, to the Maruhn-Greiner maxima at fission, and to deuteron clusters in palladium with 2-picometer nuclear distance.

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Resolution to Huizenga's "Three Miracles of Cold Fusion"

Huizenga's three miracles were:

Miracle #1: the mystery of how the Coulomb barrier is penetrated
Miracle #2: the lack of strong neutron emissions
Miracle #3: the lack of strong emission of gamma or x-rays

Resolution to Miracle #1:

Resolution to Miracle #2:

Resolution to Miracle #3:

Simple Explanation of Mechanics of Theory

(Contributed by Hora, Jan. 16, 2012)
The question of how nuclei can be transmuted in palladium by one number of nucleons, is to show how basically different alternative existing knowledge has reached a level for understanding based on well known mechanisms.

The question is how Miley’s discoverey (Fig. 5 of [1]) of LENR can be understood. Using the beads of Patterson and measurements in the top class Frederick Seitz Laboratory in Urbana/IL, the distribution of the LENR generation probability of nuclei over the whole range of nucleons of number N was confirmed with a large scale minimum near N = 145 similar to uranium fission at N = 119 but with an additional local maximum due to the Maruhn-Greiner effect. The theory [2] was based on the conclusion from the experimental results of Prelas et al., that the deuterons in the palladium lattice are screened by a factor 14 compared with the screening by a factor 5 in plasma theory [3]. The factor 14 was confirmed later based on general derivations [4].

The screening permitted DD reactions in about 2 pm distance within times in the order around kiloseconds. There is some similarity with the K-shell electron capture of nuclei and weak force in which case the timing and the Bohrradii are in the same range. This analogy was well taken into account in the discussions [5][6] but has not any connection in the model (Eq. 6 of [1]) for a cluster process for generation of nuclei via a compound nucleus to produce the Miley distribution in analogy to uranium. The properties of Bose-Einstein clusters for 2 pm deuteron distances reacting with Pd was necessary for this large-N Miley distributions. The existence of the high density deuterium clusters in single Schottky-defects in the volume of Pd was measured [7] and ultrahigh density clusters with the 2 pm deuteron distances at surface defects were discovered by Holmlid et al., see [8].

[1] George H. Miley, Heinrich Hora, Karl Philberth, Andrei Lipson & P.J. Shrestha. Radiochemical Comparisons on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions and Uranium. In Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions and New Energy Technologies Source Book (Vol. 2) Jan Marwan and Steven B. Krivit eds., ACS Symposium Series No. 1029, American Chemical Society/Oxford University Press, Washington DC, ISBN 978-0-8412-2454-4 (2009) p. 235-252. [2] H. Hora, J.C. Kelly, J.U. Patel, Mark A. Prelas, G.H. Miley, and J.W. Tompkins, Screening in cold fusion derived from D-D reactions, Physics Letters, A175, 138-143 (1993).[3] S. Ichimaru, Rev. Mod. Phys. 65, 255 (1993)[4] Czerski, K.; Huke, A.; Biller, A. Screening of deuterons in metals for fusion Europhysics Letters, 2001, 54, 449; Huke, K.; Cerski, P. et al. Enhancement of deuteron-fusion reactions in metals and experimental implications. Phys. Rev. C 2008, 78, 015803.[5] H. Hora, and G.H. Miley, Low Energy Nuclear Reactions of Hydrogen in Host Metals, in Current Trends in International Fusion Research-Proceedings of the Third Symposium, Washington DC March 1999, E. Panarella, ed., (NRC Research Press, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, 2001) p.527-546[6] H. Hora, G.H. Miley, F. Osman, Heavy Nuclide Synthesis by Neutrons in astrophysics and by Screened Protons in Host Metals, Astrophysics and Space Sciences 298, 247-253 (2005)[7] A. Lipson, B.I. Heuser, C. Castanov, G. Miley, B. Lyakov & A. Mitin, Phys. Rev. B, 72, 212507/1-9 (2005)[8] L. Holmlid, H. Hora, G.H. Miley and X. Yang, Ultrahigh-denisty deuterium of Rydberg matter clusters for inertial confinement fusion targets. Laser and Particle Beams 27, 529-532 (2009)

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H. Hora, J.C. Kelly, J.U. Patel, M.A. Prelas, G.H. Miley and J.W. Tompkins, Screening in Cold Fusion Derived from D-D Reactions, Physics Letters A, 1993, 175, 138.

G.H. Miley, H. Hora, K. Philberth, A. Lipson and P.J. Shrestha, Radiochemical Comparisons on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions and Uranium, in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions and New Energy Technologies Sourcebook, ed. S. Krivit and J. Marwan, American Chemical Society, Oxford University Press, Washington, D.C., vol. 2, ISBN 978-0-8412-2454-4.

H. Hora, and G.H. Miley, Low Energy Nuclear Reactions of Hydrogen in Host Metals, in Current Trends in International Fusion Research-Proceedings of the Third Symposium, Washington DC March 1999, E. Panarella, ed., (NRC Research Press, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, 2001) p.527-546

H. Hora, G.H. Miley, F. Osman, Heavy Nuclide Synthesis by Neutrons in astrophysics and by Screened Protons in Host Metals, Astrophysics and Space Sciences 298, 247-253 (2005)

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