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The Effects of Lead Shielding on Muon Counts If you are near a LENR reactor, tt looks like lots of muons will get to and into the body. I wonder if muons are harmful? On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > The problem with Holmlid’s work is that he uses an extremely small amount > of reactant – trillions of times less than in a Rossi reactor. This tiny > scale makes it very difficult to extrapolate what he is doing to a larger > size. > > > > Holmlid’s work looks like a miniature NOVA/NIF hot fusion device > (Livermore Lab) more than it resembles LENR. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_%28laser%29 > > …since the input and output are hot, and only the target is cold (which is > the same general situation at LLNL). > > > > I have no problem with calling Holmlid’s work LENR if - when it is > scaled-up, the radiation level does not also scale-up to the toxic level – > which it arguably would with massively more 13 MeV “particles” – whatever > they are. > > > > The one and only defining characteristic for LENR - should be this: gain > above chemical levels, with acceptably low ionizing radiation. No one cares > about the power input being a laser, or a SPP chip, nor whether the reactor > is glowing, so long as it is safe. > > > > *From:* Axil Axil > > > > I will reread Leif Holmlid muon paper again with your comments in mind to > see if there is any observations that shed light on your posits. > > > > Jones Beene wrote: > > Axil, > > I may have missed it, but how do you account for the short lifetime of the > muon and why is that signature not showing up? > > The muon is unstable with a lifetime of 2.2 microseconds (2.197×10^−6 sec) > and since they have a mass much larger than an electron, but decay to an > electron and neutrino, the decay is energetic. If lots of them were being > produced, then there should be a primary and secondary radiation signature > – bremsstrahlung - from the thermalization of decay electrons. This > signature is known, and if seen would validate your hypothesis. > > *From:* Axil Axil > > Posts combined revised and extended as follows: > > The appearance of muons in the LENR reaction are explained by SPP theory. > > Regarding: > http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/rsi/86/8/10.1063/1.4928109 > > Muon detection studied by pulse-height energy analysis: Novel converter > > >
