On Jan 5, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Mark Iverson wrote:
Could these be used instead of CR39 for LENR research...
http://www.adsem.com/gpage4.html
-Mark
Monochromators would be used in addition to CR-39 or other
detectors. They are energy related filters or "discriminators".
These appear to reflect (filter) high energy neutrons and x-rays to
some degree. There are not a lot of 100 keV x-rays involved in CF
(at least so far), so not much use there.
For neutrons with 1.6 Å wavelengths (60% reflectivity) we have:
lambda = 1.6 Å = h/p = h/(m*v)
v = h/(m * lambda) = 2472.52 m/s
E = m*v^2 = 0.0639 eV
which is a moderately low energy neutron, but not ultra-low energy.
Could be of some interest, especially if reaction rates can
eventually be driven up orders of magnitude.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
