A model for enhanced fusion reaction in a solid matrix of metal deuterides

Abstract

Our study shows that the cross-section for fusion improves considerably if d-d pairs are located in linear (one-dimensional) chainlets or line defects. Such nonequilibrium defects can exist only in a solid-matrix. Further, solids harbor lattice vibrational modes (quanta, phonons) whose longitudinal optical modes interact strongly with electrons and ions. One such interaction, resulting in potential inversion, causes localization of electron pairs on deuterons. Thus, we have attraction of D⁺-D^- pairs and strong screening of the nuclear repulsion due to these local electron pairs (local charged bosons: acronym, lochons). This attraction and strong coupling permits low-energy deuterons to approach close enough to alter the standard equations used to define nuclear-interaction cross-sections. These altered equations not only predict that low-energy-nuclear reactions (LENR) of D⁺- D^- (and H⁺ - H^- ) pairs are possible, they predict that they are probable.