https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2193-9
Letter
Low energy neutron production by inverse β decay in metallic hydride surfaces
1
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Università de L’Aquila, Via Vetoio, Coppito, L’Aquila, 67010, Italy
2
Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale A. Moro 5, Roma, 00185, Italy
3
Fondazione TERA, Via G Puccini 11, Novara, 28100, Italy
4
INFN Sezione di Roma1, Piazzale A. Moro 5, Roma, 00185, Italy
* e-mail: luciano.maiani@cern.ch
Received:
28
September
2012
Published online:
26
October
2012
It has recently been argued that inverse-β nuclear transmutations might occur at an impressively high rate in a thin layer at a metallic hydride surface under specific conditions. In this note we present a calculation of the transmutation rate, which shows that there is little room for such a remarkable effect.
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg and Società Italiana di Fisica, 2012
