This is a resend, with a different subject heading, as apparently the first
posting triggered an ISP filter in cyber-space.
In addition to the three "usual suspects" in nuclear fission:
1) thermal neutron induced fission
2) fast neutron induced fission
which happen via "neutral projectile" and the one by probability, or unknown
instability (including cosmic rays, etc)
3) spontaneous fission
. there are more types involving a non-neutral projectile interaction,
lepton or photons or kinetics (all of these show up in peer-reviewed papers)
4) "quasi-fission," the two product nuclei have masses close to those
of the target and projectile, individually
5) "deep inelastic transfer"
6) "relaxed-peak process"
7) "incomplete fusion"
8) "strongly damped collisions" reaction products have the kinetic
energies typical of fission products, but their masses differ from what one
would expect in fission
9) "cluster fission"
10) "electron induced fission" (Maly, France) products have far more
energy than expected
11) "bremsstrahlung-induced fission" similar to the above
12) "gamma-induced fission"
13) "laser induced fission" along with gamma both are varieties of
photofission
14) "neutrino induced fission" presumed to be rare, but real
But there are others which are more speculative .
15) "monopole induced fission" This is Lochak, Urutskojev et al.
conjecture based on analyzing the Chernobyl accident and the fertilizer
explosion in France.
16) "piezo-nuclear decay" not necessarily fission, but interesting in
implications for LENR
17) "K-capture" which is a reaction triggered by capture of an inner
electron
At any rate, the message here from all of these varieties - is that fission
of heavy nuclei CANNOT be reduced to a few simple and well known pathways,
as some in fizzix would claim; and in fact, given that many of these papers
are new, there could be completely unknown channels, especially low energy
channels, yet to be discovered.
Of special interest to LENR is the possibility that "pycno," dense clusters,
or IRH (inverted Rydberg hydrogen) will induce nuclear reactions, which
might appear to be fission, if the target is heavy, or something else with
light targets.
Jones
