III. Bloch nuclides, Iwamura transmutations, and Oriani showers

The lwamura et al. 2-α addition transmutation and the Oriani-Fisher energetic particle showers demand an explanation. They both depend on the same physics as responsible for cold fusion, namely the phase-coherent partitioning of deuteron charge when the deuteron assumes a Bloch-like form and becomes distributed among a large number Nwell of potential wells. As a result, the work required to bring the two 'nuclei' into contact is reduced by 1/ Nwell. In cold fusion 2 spin-zero paired deuterons fuse as per 2 - DBloch+ → 4HeBloch2+ + 23.8 MeV. In the lwamura process 2 4HeBloch2+ fuse as per 2 - 4HeBloch2+ → 8BeBloch4+ + Enuc, in a Bloch-sensitive reaction where reaction energy Enuc is a function of Nwell. Deuteron cold fusion is not Bloch sensitive because the reaction changes the coordinate exchange symmetry pairing. A Bloch-sensitive fusion product is mobilized to seek a larger number of hosting wells. This causes 8BeBloch4+ to migrate to a surface where Cs+ ions protruding above the surface are overlapped. They add the 8BeBloch4+ product in an exothermic reaction. In an Oriani process the 8BeBloch4+ detaches from its hosting surface, dissolves, forms clusters, and gets suspended in off-gases as a flake nucleus with 2-dimensional periodic symmetry, Its geometry and internal nuclear excitation spectrum cause a normally forbidden energy transfer from gas to flake, until the increasingly energized 8BeBloch4+ fissions into a pair of MeV alpha particles. (author)