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- From: ames!FNALD.FNAL.GOV!DROEGE
- Subject: Just Mucking Around
- Message-ID: <920729165604.20a00b54@FNALD.FNAL.GOV>
- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
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- Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:25:02 GMT
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- Ed Storms nicely sent me a copy of the ICCF3 preprint. It contains several
- tables. Table 2 lists all the disasters - dieing recombiner, broken
- connections, etc.. Table 3 lists all the different operating points, saw
- tooth, high-low, steady etc.. It looks just like my log book. It looks
- just like what I can read from the McKubre paper.
-
- My point is that we are all struggling to find a repeatable experiment. What
- keeps us going is that every so often we see something. But I think that
- no one has it yet. This in my opinion includes P&F. There may well be
- nothing to find, but it is sure fun trying. So to some of you standing by
- the sidelines wishing you could participate, there is still time! Jump in,
- you are not that far behind the rest of us. ( An alternate reading of the
- previous statement is "Misery loves company").
-
- Bob Horst suggest a three level experiment. You bet Bob, I actually have
- two 1 microcurie sources coming. So we can do background, weak old, one
- microcurie, two microcurie.
-
- For thought. Everyone worries about getting the loading high. The theory
- seems to be that high **uniform** loading is needed. Thus P&F are rumored
- to be using Pd/Ag alloy because it is stronger and can take loading without
- fracture. How in the world can it be uniform? To me, a real process must
- work on a single crystal grain! Or possibly in a single grain boundary.
- So I advocate building a sensitive device and looking for a tiny effect.
- Then it can be optimized.
-