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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
Fulvio Frisone
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 260-265
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A167
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The aim of this research was to analyze the reaction of deuteron fusion, catalyzed by the plasmons in lattices with a cubic structure, to varying the temperature. The probability of fusion in pure and impure palladium metal is calculated using a hypothesis that suggests a kind of chain reaction within the crystalline lattice. As a consequence of the enhanced tunneling effect due to increasing the temperature and the concentration of impurities, this chain reaction would be favored by microcracks formed in the structure as a result of lattice deformation. This paper interprets the results obtained, considering the trend of the potential that describes the effective interaction between deuterons within the metal. In effect, the coupling of plasmons and deuterons, in the presence of impurities, can not only reduce the thickness but also lower the height of the Coulomb barrier K.
