OVERCOMING OF THE GAMOW TUNNELING INSUFFICIENCIES BY MAXIMIZING THE DAMP-MATCHING RESONANT TUNNELING

Abstract

The resonant quantum tunneling current through the barrier between two wells may be maximized when the damp (absorption) in one well matches the barrier parameters. The maximum resonant tunneling current is much greater than the conventional expectation by a factor ofθ (1/θ2 is the Gamow tunneling factor). It is shown that with all the established quantum mechanics, very much higher reaction probabilities between nuclei in contrary to the Gamow theory can be explained in agreement with experiments. Particularly, the resonance will select the sub-barrier fusion with a suitable fusion rate which matches the barrier parameters. This selective resonant tunneling model is able to explain both the hot fusion data (e.g. the width of resonance in11B(p,α)2α reaction) and the cold fusion data (e.g. “excess heat” without any commensurate neutron andγ radiation).