At 03:21 PM 7/16/2009, Horace Heffner wrote:
The emission rate for alphas in CF experiments is very low. Some CR-39 exposures have only a few dozen per mm^2, for a two week experiment.
Those wouldn't be the experiments with the detector immediately next to the electrode, if I have it right. It would be useful to have a quantitative analysis.
This kind of emission rate can be difficult to distinguish from cosmic ray initiated background. This shows the strengths of an integrating and particle type discriminating detector like CR-39, vs particle counters, for low activity experiments.
Yes. If it's true, however, that there is excess heat, being generated by reactions close to the detector, with such low pitting, there goes Takahashi, nice while it lasted. (Unless some other mechanism is asserted beyond Be-8 decay; for example, TSC fusion with palladium, which might be common, followed by other sequelae.)
