RE: [Vo]:The appearance of muons are explained by SPP theory.Muons appear in osmic rays AFAIK. They must be relativistic to exist as long as it take to travel from the Sun to Earth, given their low energy decay rate at non-relativist energies. Cosmic ray muons would be even more relativistic with longer apparent lifetimes.
Their resonant cross sections with various nuclei as a function of relative energy and B field would be of interest to see if there are resonances that would couple with SPP’s of a given dimension and magnetic field strength. Maybe muons become relativistic in metal lattices and/or SPP’s, living a long life and catalyzing many fusion or transmutation reactions in their lifetime from an observers perspective. Bob Cook From: Jones Beene Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2015 10:38 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:The appearance of muons are explained by SPP theory. Here is another possibility involving the muon. Muon decay (Michel decay) consists of the almost immediate decay into an electron, an electron antineutrino, and a muon neutrino. This happens after only 2 microseconds, which is too short for chain reaction of muons per se, and therefore what we may looking at – for the active propagator of LENR in not the muon but instead … the muon neutrino. We know that the electron antineutrino doesn’t help much in this regard, since it is seen in beta decay and that kind of decay has been tried as an accelerant in LENR -- but the muon neutrino is not as well-known. This particle does not have the short lifetime of the muon, but in the past it was thought to be inert, like the other neutrino varieties. Perhaps this variety of neutrino is, in fact, not as inert as the others in some circumstances, due to some special property. The species was also once thought to be FTL but that claim was presumably retracted … but maybe not completely retracted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_neutrino Anyway, the door is open for the possibility that upon the initial muon decay in certain materials, the muon neutrino can somehow interact (in what looks like a chain reaction) to create either another muon (which happens in lead) or in other circumstances will end up supplying the thermal gain which is seen. Stranger things have happened with neutrinos – which are still a great mystery to science. From: Axil Axil As a way to shield muon radiation, the LENR reactor could be buried underground in a silo with the depth of the hole determined by the health effects produced by the expected muon flux… The flow of Muons from the "Mouse" into the "Cats" in Rossi's Self Sustain mode (SSM) configuration looks like an application of a muon chain reaction that you speculate about. Ø http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic/posters/display.jsp?name=poster.lead.cool.man.data Ø 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? Aside from the possible (likely) harm from muons, the curious and disturbing thing about this paper is that the authors: 1) expected to see a decreasing rate of muon counts as more lead above the detectors was added, 2) They were extremely surprised to see that when going from 15cm to 20cm of lead, the count rate of muons actually increased 3) This data point was extremely unexpected. They had expected that the rate of decrease of the muon count rates would have slowed, but the last thing expected was for the count rates to actually increase. That is a lot of lead, first of all. Even then, it never blocked all the muons. For the muon count to increase, with thicker lead, this means that some kind of chain reaction is happening above a thickness level, but muon keep progressing thought the metal. As an analogy – (of how LENR could benefit from this) consider the known parameters of fission … a chain reaction of neutrons is the driver of fission reactors, and thus the concept of a chain reaction of muons is intriguing. Can muons be harvested? As for using this information in a practical manner, the main problem is that tons of lead would be needed for even a small reactor - and in the end – the question is whether they can be converted into energy.
