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- From: hndcol02@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Colin Henderson, Physics Dept. UCT)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Re: DD->4He + gamma
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.181336.202183@uctvax.uct.ac.za>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 16:13:36 GMT
- References: <199207300852.AA20319@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <1992Jul30.161013.12714@cs.ucf.edu>
- Organization: University of Cape Town
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- In article <1992Jul30.161013.12714@cs.ucf.edu>, long@next1.acme.ucf.edu (Richard Long) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul30.131601.20968@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- > rpetsche@mrg.tmc.edu (Rolfe G. Petschek) writes:
- >> In article <weRiXuK00UhW04InRD@andrew.cmu.edu> pk03+@andrew.cmu.edu
- > (Paul Karol) writes:
- >>
- >> >Bruce Scott also guesses that D + D --> He-4 violates some quantum
- >> >selection rule, but I do not believe that is the case.
- >>
- >> d is spin 1
- >> He is spin 0
- >> gammas are spin 1
- >
- > I believe that both d and He4 can have different total spins than those
- >[ ... ]
- > we can rule out spin 1 He4, but spin zero d is certainly a possibility.
- >
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- Spin zero d's are unbound, aren't they? Like diprotons and dinutrons.
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- Colin Henderson
- Physics Dept, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa.
- colin@physci.uct.ac.za
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