Eur. Phys. J. C (2014) 74: 2843
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2843-1

Letter

Neutron production rates by inverse-beta decay in fully ionized plasmas

Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 , Rome, Italy

^* e-mail: luciano.maiani@roma1.infn.it

Received: 22 January 2014
Accepted: 1 April 2014
Published online: 11 April 2014

Abstract

Recently we showed that the nuclear transmutation rates are largely overestimated in the Widom–Larsen theory of the so-called ‘Low Energy Nuclear Reactions’. Here we show that unbound plasma electrons are even less likely to initiate nuclear transmutations.