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I followed the authors' logic pretty well (and detected relatively little double-talk BS) -- including the premise that the lochon's lowering effect on the Coulomb barrier supposedly enables not only deuterium-deuterium, but also proton-proton interaction. And, I follow their claim that, since no resulting gamma radiation is detected, the released energy is emitted as heat (as observed).

But, they lost me at their "one equals zero" statement, below:

"The key to the mechanism is the lochon, which during the collision process attains significant energy (keV to MeV range); but,
being tightly bound in an l = 0 ground state,
it does not radiate. "

Either that is some "quantum believability" bit that I have not encountered, or these guys are -- very skillfully -- pulling our collective legs...

If, however, they are correct, it is encouraging, since protons (H nuclei) are far more abundant than Deuterium nuclei...

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<DISCLAIMER> It was well after I left academia for industry that quantum physics knowledge really flourished -- so, like most of you fellow FReepers -- I find this stuff to be "fairly deep wading"...

But, they lost me at their "one equals zero" statement, below:

I think he's talking about (lower-case L) equals 0, where (lower case l) refers to the quantum number indicating which electron shell an electron is in (0 means the lowest shell, closest to the nucleus).

As seen here, most fonts don’t make a good distinction between l (’el’) and 1 (one). I chose an italicized l (el) for ang.mon.(angular momentum). It did not translate well.

In text, s-orbital electron-pair ang. mom. = spin up + spin down = 1/2 + (-1/2) = 0, thus, l = 0. Sorry about that.

A cleaner version & new material will show up in JCMNS soon.

You are correct about the applicability to H-H as well as D-D interactions. The consequence gives a clear picture of a Rossi-like generator that utilizes the transmutation energy.

I have been asked before to produce a simplified version of the papers. However, things are moving so fast that new papers seem more important at the moment. I’ll try do do the difficult task sometime in the future.