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Abstract |
The rate of nuclear fusion from tunneling in very dense metallic hydrogen in the core of Jupiter is calculated to be 10 per hydrogen-deuterium pair per second. It is estimated that the width of the fusion barrier for deuterium in palladium or a similar metal must be reduced to, of order, 0.1 A for the fusion rate to be 10 25 per deuterium per second. If this scale is achieved, the ratios of various nuclear reaction rates will be very different for cold versus thermonuclear fusion. |
Year of Publication |
1989
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Journal |
Physical Review C
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Volume |
40
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Issue |
4
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ISBN Number |
0556-2813
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URL |
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5398854
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