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EPL
Volume 126, Number 1, April 2019
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| Article Number | 12002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Nuclear Physics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/126/12002 | |
| Published online | 22 May 2019 | |
Anomalous oscillatory features in neutron emission from D + D fusion in palladium at 100 keV implantation energy
Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre - Mumbai - 400 085, India
(a) rgthomas@barc.gov.in (corresponding author)
Received: 22 November 2018
Accepted: 16 April 2019
Neutron yield in D + D fusion in a palladium foil, kept at about 
temperature, has been measured as a function of the number of implanted 
ions at a bombarding energy of 100 keV. A considerably large oscillatory pattern was observed riding on a systematic increment for the emitted neutron yield as a function of the number of implanted ions. Such an oscillatory behaviour is in contrast with the expected neutron yield calculated using the bare D + D fusion cross-section. The present observation seems to indicate that the bare cross-section is significantly affected due to the lattice effects of the host metal at large 
atomic ratios.
PACS: 25.45.-z – 2H-induced reactions / 26.20.-f – Hydrostatic stellar nucleosynthesis / 24.30.-v – Resonance reactions
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