Published May 1, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

The possibility for superconductor fusion in metallic hydrogen

  • 1. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita Osaka 565-0871 (Japan)

Description

Hydrogen varies its stable state in accordance with its temperature and density. Though molecular gas is stable in the environment, the monatomic state is stable in high density ranges more than about 1g/cc. Such dense hydrogen has many aspects never seen in the molecular state. For example, in the range over about 108K temperature and over 103g/cc density, great efforts are taken to realize Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF). Additionally, in the range of temperature lower than about 105K in temperature and of density more than 104g/cc in density, pycno nuclear fusion is supposed to be occurred. We have derived the expression for the Debye screening length of inter ionic potential and investigated nuclear reaction rates in the superconductive solid metallic hydrogen. It is revealed that the screening length is shortened by correlated electron pairs follow the Bose-Einstein distribution in the superconductive state. The bosonization increases the number of the lower energy states of the electrons to increase the screening effects on the potential with decreases in the temperature, resulting in the significant enhancement of the nuclear reaction rates by more than 10 orders of magnitude

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/112/4/042081

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
Journal Volume
112
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
[4 p.]
ISSN
1742-6596

Conference

Title
5. international conference on inertial fusion sciences and applications
Acronym
IFSA2007
Dates
9-14 Sep 2007
Place
Kobe (Japan)