In particular, the Coulomb barrier for the claimed fusion reaction is so high that it is insurmountable anywhere in the known universe, including the interior of stars.
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Because of the higher Coulomb barrier, the temperatures required for 2 1 H + 3 2 He fusion are much higher than those of conventional D-T fusion.
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The process has to occur in very high temperature environments ( above 10 9 kelvin ) so that the protons can overcome the large Coulomb barrier for charged particle reactions.
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Some years later, the name Gamow factor or Gamow Sommerfeld factor was applied to the probability of incoming nuclear particles tunnelling through the electrostatic Coulomb barrier and undergoing nuclear reactions.
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The process allows a nuclear interaction to take place at lower energies than would be expected from a simple calculation of the Coulomb barrier between a deuteron and a target nucleus.
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The amount of energy that needs to be applied to force the nuclei together is termed the " Coulomb barrier " or " fusion barrier energy ".
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I find it likely that the group-think conclusion here that it is impossible to overcome the Coulomb barrier will prevail over the experimental evidence, but of course it shouldn t.
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The reason for this is the very low Coulomb barrier for this reaction; for D + 3 He, the barrier is much higher, and it is even higher for 3 He 3 He.
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:: : Don't forget-radioactive decay as we observe it is inexplicable without QM tunnelling; radioactive decay products are ejected at lower kinetic energies than the height of the coulomb barrier they penetrated !-- bmk
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Unlike the positively charged alpha particles, which are repelled by the electrical forces present in the nuclei of other atoms, neutrons do not need to overcome any Coulomb barrier, and can therefore penetrate and enter the nuclei of even the heaviest elements such as uranium.
