(#CF = DIESECF Desorbing-Incident Excess Surface Electron Catalyzed Fusion, # being "dièse" in French)
As I suggested to someone in a private message a few weeks ago, I think the desorbing deuteron must have more energy than that due to its free fall in the electron layer's electric field, in the form of a "sphincter contraction" like expulsion energy (sorry for the gruesome image). This would be due to the elastic nature of the Pd crystal which could be expected to re-contract locally with the participation of a large number of surface Pd atoms after the deuteron's passage. This kinetic energy could be a welcome complement to the electron layer's screening effect. This complementary effect could explain why CF occurs with Pd and D, with Ni (tighter lattice) and H (protium), but not (or less) e.g. with Pd and H, because the smaller protium would flow "too easily" (with less sphincter propulsion) out of the relatively roomy Pd lattice. Hope this makes some sense. Do let me know anyone if this sphincter aspect of hydrogen nuclei expulsion has been evoked before and/or quantified. Michel P.S. Of course the whole hypothesis, which I have presented in essentially classical terms (my apologies to "real" theoreticians for that), will have to be translated to quantum physics language and quantified before it can be considered a proper theory. This will be done IF --big if-- it is confirmed experimentally, there being obviously little point in theorizing further if it is proved wrong.
