On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:33 PM, David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote:
Eric, you seem to be suggesting some form of isomer of He4. I suppose if > that is possible, then it would allow the energy a temporary storage > location before it becomes released. Is there any evidence that this > happens? > None on my part. I'll have to defer to more knowledgeable folks on this question, although it's a handy conceptual device for making sense of the different d+d branches. I know that in other nuclear reactions there are some branches that lead to metastable isomers that then go on to decay further, often emitting a gamma ray, although I don't know that that is what is happening in this instance. Since the proposed two-deuteron resonance is so unstable that it lasts for a very small amount of time, calling it an isomer might be a misnomer. Eric
