Volume 2 - LENR-CANR

The expression (45) was partially evaluated in a previous paper [7]; in fact, we were only
interested in the dependence of the tunneling probability on impurities present within the
lattice. Through the present work, we seek to examine the correlation between potential
features and loading ratio. Some numerical results are showed in the paragraph 5.
ii) β-phase
Phase happens when x is higher than 0.1 but lower than 0.7. The interaction takes place
among deuteron ions that oscillate between the following energy values:
0.1 eV < ħ < 0.2 eV
In this case W(t) is zero, we can express the potential as follows:
2
q J
R
V ( r)
k
V r
M ( )
(46)
r r
Comparing the expressions 45 and 46, it seems clear that the weight of impurities is more
important in the -phase. Of course this conclusion relates to previous papers [7,8] in which we
have studied the role of temperature on tunneling effect.
iii) γ-phase
Lastly, the deuteron-palladium system is in the phase when the loading ratio is higher than
0.7.
This is the most interesting case. The deuterons cross the screening through the d-electrons
shell. In this respect, we did a numeric simulation where we supposed that the D-D potential
must be computed on the assumption that the potential (37) well disappears because of the
Morse contribution. In fact, if we use a classical plasma model where the D + ions are the
positive charge and the d-electrons the negative one, it is very “realistic” to obtain the
following potential:
2
q J
R
V ( r,
t)
k VM
r
Qt
r
( )
r
where Q(t) is an unknown perturbative potential. On this topic, we can also add that:
Wmax
Q( t)
(48)
t
2
In the next evaluation it is given as:
Q( t)
85eV
(49)
t
5. Conclusions
The aim of this section is to present the D-D fusion probability normalized to number of
events per second regarding the D-D interaction in all different phases. More exactly, we seek
to compare fusion probability in phases , and according to the variation of energy between
568
(47)