Comment on "Nuclear Emissions During Self-Nucleated Acoustic Cavitation"
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⚛️ physics.gen-ph
nucl-exnucl-th
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acousticcavitationfusionneutronssourcespectrumtheyanalysis
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In a recent Letter to PRL, Taleyarkhan and coauthors claim to observe DD fusion produced by acoustic cavitation. Among other evidence, they provide a proton recoil spectrum that they interpret as arising from 2.45 MeV DD fusion neutrons. My analysis concludes the spectrum is inconsistent with 2.45 MeV neutrons, cosmic background, or a PuBe source, but it is consistent with a Cf-252 source.
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