A Study of cold fusion
| dc.contributor.advisor | Franklyn, C.B. | |
| dc.contributor.postgraduate | Strydom, Christo Wilhelm | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-27T09:15:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-11-27T09:15:59Z | |
| dc.date.created | 21/09/28 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1991 | |
| dc.description | Dissertation (MSc (Physics))--University of Pretoria, 1991. | |
| dc.description.abstract | An investigation is made of the deuterium-deuterium nuclear fusion in a gas-pressurized, thermally cycled titanium-deuteride in the temperature region between 80 and 600 K. A compound neutron and, detection system, consisting of 30 BF 3 proportional counters, 2 Nal(Tl) scintillators and an NE213 scintillator, all housed in a neutron moderator, together with 4 separate long counters, was designed to search for random emission of fusion neutrons from the deuteride, as well as burstcorrelated neutron emission in the < 1 ms region, during thermal cycles. No significant emission of any of the products associable with deuterium-deuterium fusion was observed during any of the 21 experiments performed with two different deuterides, having D /Ti ratios of 1.003 ± 0.018 and 0.428 ± 0.008. An upper limit for the rate of nuclear fusion of deuterium for a duration between ~1 min and ~4 h was found to be 5 x 10-24 dd-1 s-1. | |
| dc.description.degree | MSc (Physics) | |
| dc.description.department | Physics | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/99486 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of Pretoria | |
| dc.rights | © 2024 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. | |
| dc.subject | Study | |
| dc.subject | Cold | |
| dc.subject | Fusion | |
| dc.subject | UCTD | |
| dc.title | A Study of cold fusion | |
| dc.type | Dissertation |
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